On Monday 14 Jul 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Orgs. who work with Govt./PSU portals have raised this issue "but > with a > > Linux desktop we cannot download/upload tenders (or whatever)." " > > Arun, > Can you please throw a bit more light on this issue? Request you to > please share any info you may have on actual instances of this > happening. > > Thanks, > Vinay.
Vinay, First of all - in future please trim all the irrelevant messages from the digest to which you responded. First a couple of instances where I have faced the issue of Windows/IE combo. 1. My first tryst with e-governance portal was with Ministry of Company Affairs (MCA). The page for searching a company name - sent VBscript to client forcing user to have Windows/IE combo. 2. To submit my company's annual reports to MCA, need Windows/IE combo. 3. Need Windows/IE combo to download digital certs. from MTNL TrustLine. Hearsay, ditto for other Cert. Auth. 4. A client, where we are doing an Ubuntu desktop pilot, does biz with PSUs one of them is MAHAGENCO. Still to be confirmed from client but this is what has been conveyed - to upload bids on their tenders, they need to login with digital certs. on a dongle - not possible w/o Windows/IE combo. 5. The same client also does business with other PSUs wherein they need to auth. with the portal (usb dongle) to login and download tenders. Not able to do so w/o Windows/IE combo. I have asked the client to list all such sites; awaiting their response. I know we can install client side digital certs in a browser. I don't understand why a digital cert. on a usb dongle, that works only with Windows/IE, is preferred by the developers of public portals. My point is that portals interacting with public at large cannot force their customers to have Window/IE to transact. It is tantamount to endorsing a proprietary platform forcing users either to cough up for a lic. or use pirated versions. On one hand the message is go legit with lic. but on the other hand the users do not have a choice but to use Windows/IE for such transactions. The user is caught between a rock and a hard place. Such portals are an impediment to end users who want to use something other than Windows/IE on their desktop for example a Linux desktop. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
