As long as the solution is hosted on Philippine soil, it gives DOST the leverage to wring necks when shit hits the fan. I can imagine MS giving in to a local partner who would request to have a private install of Office 365 on government servers in the Philippines, same also with the other competitors in this space like Oracle, IBM, EMC and the like.
I don't see Google establishing data centers for Philippine government contracts just yet. Nor do I see them willing to sell Google Apps in an appliance like the Google Search Appliance pizza box. If that happens though... kudos to them and their tech partners. Government contracts are lucrative. It would've been nice if there are local providers willing to fork the time, money, manpower and like for things like HIPAA, BS 7799/ISO 27001 using a free software stack or hybrid solutions employing FOSS and proprietary technologies, but they should have existed years ago and not just today. Integration and development do take time and expertise and not just going preachy on FOSS. Paolo On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Rogelio Serrano <[email protected]> wrote: > its microsoft. i can expect nothing else from our government... > > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:02 AM, Robert Locke <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I see your article and raise you: >> >> http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/01/google-wins-35-million-u-s-government-contract-over-microsoft/ >> >> ;-) >> >> Rob >> >> >> On 05 2, 12, at 1:24 AM, fooler mail wrote: >> >> http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/productivity_apps/232300539 >> >> fooler. >> >> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:10 AM, Danny Ching <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Google? >> >> >> >> >> On May 2, 2012, at 1:03 AM, Zak Elep <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Danny Ching <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Anyone familiar with this? Are they using Open Source? Or did the MS lobby >> >> win out again? >> >> >> http://technology.inquirer.net/10555/govt-to-set-up-private-cloud-of-servers-to-host-e-mail-ict-services >> >> >> I have a feeling it is the cloud service we all love to use ;) >> >> >> -- >> >> Zak B. Elep || zakame.net >> >> 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D >> >> _________________________________________________ >> >> Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >> >> http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >> >> Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >> >> _________________________________________________ >> >> Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >> >> http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >> >> Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >> >> _________________________________________________ >> Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >> http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >> Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >> >> >> >> _________________________________________________ >> Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >> http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >> Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > > -- > quarq consulting: agile, open source > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
