Shaul Karl wrote:
In the Israeli there are 2 aspects which are also present else where
but might be more noticeable here:
1. Open Source means a switch from the more traditional way of thinking.
so ? is new==good ?
2. Hopefully it will divert money that is now spent outside of Israel,
fo
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 08:17:40 +0200, Gil Freund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Let us now look into the propriety software side. The obvious example
comes to mind: Microsoft.
Well, I think there was another big fork in the propriatery software world
and
that is the Great Unix Fork. Not talking only
ely yours,
Adam
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From: "Gil Freund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 10:33 PM
Subject: Re: Arti
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 06:27:36PM -0200, Gabor Szabo wrote:
>
> I have not seen it mentioned here (maybe I wasn't looking ?)
>
> Open question
> The government claims open-source software means a 60% saving. It doesn't
> add up.
>
> Basically it sais that the TCO of Open Source is higher than
Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Gil Freund wrote:
[snip]
That's not it.
This study is a MS sponsored study. While IDC did their own research,
they were told what parameters to test this under. In particular:
1. Whether or not certain aspects were checked. Security patching, anyone?
2. Time over which
Gil Freund wrote:
As for TCO; it's very easy to lower TCO in MS based environments:
1. You ignore third party solution required to complete the MS
environment (I have yet to see an MS shop without 30-40% of the
software componanted suplemnting MS shortcommings).
2. With big contract, MS will dir
Gabor Szabo wrote:
I have not seen it mentioned here (maybe I wasn't looking ?)
Open question
The government claims open-source software means a 60% saving. It
doesn't add up.
Basically it sais that the TCO of Open Source is higher than that of
propriatery solutions and it because of the "fo
Guys,
Don't you think [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be >cc:ed on this
thread? A bit pointless preaching for OSS on this list, eh?
Oh, and by the way - see the bottom of the globes page:
"This site is best viewed with Microsoft Explorer, version 5 or
later, at resolution 1024 x 768"
Gabor Szabo
It's enough to look at this to read it in the "right light":
"A new "shared source" initiative is emerging whereby governments and large
corporate clients can access proprietary software code, helping to assuage
fears of secret security backdoors. The code is called "shared" rather than
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 06:27:36PM -0200, Gabor Szabo wrote:
>
> I have not seen it mentioned here (maybe I wasn't looking ?)
>
The following is from the article:
> Open question
> The government claims open-source software means a 60% saving. It doesn't
> add up.
>
> Basically it sais that
since when does anyone take globes seriously when it come to opensource
issue?:)
it's not the first or second time they prove to be full of crap and bias
Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University
Jerusalem Israel
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Gabor Szabo wrote:
>
> I have not seen it mentioned here (maybe
A study commisioned by Microsoft, not bias...
A windows based business doesn't have a system admin??
btw. open source webservers are accepted as the standard.
But what else is new. Just don't use widoze for mission critical
applications and you will be ok.
Aaron
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I have not seen it mentioned here (maybe I wasn't looking ?)
Open question
The government claims open-source software means a 60% saving. It doesn't
add up.
Basically it sais that the TCO of Open Source is higher than that of
propriatery solutions and it because of the "forking problem" it is r
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