On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 04:45:03 +0800, "jan gestre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/26/06, joebert jacaba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> Are there enough FOSS companies who have been dealing with the >> government already? Even without this bill i believe government >> projects can be won by FOSS. I have a chance to see a 50M government >> contract about to be won by FOSS but at the last minute two FOSS >> experts in this proprietary company have resigned for greener pasture. >> The company backed down, the project was awarded to the competitor >> using M$. > > > > There are enough FOSS companies around, and yes they already have dealings > with the government, i know one company who had projects with the Dept. of > Tourism and with our office. The last project our office had for bidding, > three(3) companies participated all of whom are FOSS companies. > >
besides it has already been mentioned that companies will adapt depending on the demand. filipinos are always adept at figuring out how to leverage on potential business opportunities and i dont think this situation is any different (if we do have a short supply of foss companies). another way i look at this is companies with good developers (re: programmers who know logic rather than encoders who only know the syntax) will survive and thrive while those that roll out average software will take a severe beating unless they can compete in 'quality'. it may seem harsh since it follows the survival of the fittest paradigm but that is good in the long run. mediocre work only means more funds need to be allocated to fix things when they start to break down. some might argue that companies that will be shifting to FOSS development cannot be expected to deliver quality work but that means you are talking about a company of fly-by-night encoders and they don't have any reason dealing with government systems (imho). ciao! -- "Programming, an artform that fights back" Anuerin G. Diaz Registered Linux User #246176 Friendly Linux Board @ http://mandrivausers.org/index.php http://capsule.ramfree17.org , when you absolutely have nothing else better to do _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List plug@lists.linux.org.ph (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
