Hi Migs: Affirmative - Open Source fits into our IT outsourcing initiatives. As you well know, much of these requirements are mandated by customers, and we are seeing more and more of these recently - I am hoping that the URLs and references disseminated earlier achieved the objective of reinforcing this message. Last July at AIM's ACCEED facilities, we conducted a forum sensitizing Philippine-based companies about this requirement. Unfortunately, at least at that time, we came to the conclusion, rightfully or wrongfully, that was not the right time to outsource.
As part of IT_INTL strategy, we have at least 2 major objectives: FIRST, make sure that Philippine-based companies are prepared to take on internationally outsourced projects, whenever and however they occur; and, SECOND, in our own humble way, that we are able to play a role in leveling the playing field among various technology platforms in both government and commercial projects. On the subject of the second objective, we are extremely disturbed by at least one announcement within one Philippine government initiative which purports to be endorsing Microsoft - at a time when most forward-looking governments agencies outside of the Philippines are taking a vendor-neutral and open source approach. Frankly, to be successful in the area of international outsourcing, we need to proficiently support various technology platforms - Mainframes, AS/400, UNIX, Microsoft, LINUX, Apple, etc. What concerns us is the extermination or isolation or weakening of one platform severely constrains our ability to service a broader-based/internationally-based outsourced projects - which more often than not, at least for the bigger accounts, tend to require support of any combination of these platforms. Migs, in order to pursue the next steps in addressing these objectives and more, we enabled [EMAIL PROTECTED] We cordially invite you and other principals to participate in this forum - else the pervasive fragmentation of the community will deter our best efforts, and encourage the isolation/weakening of certain platforms. Additionally, a meeting of Performance & Technical Standards Committee of IT_INTL is scheduled on Monday, 26 November, 4:00-7:00pm, at Zen Resto, Glorietta (fronting Shangri-La Hotel) will have this topic as part of the agenda. Please let me know if you are willing and able to attend this meeting. We look forward to working with you in these endeavors. Cordially, David Paraiso http://www.edi-info-center.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Migs Paraz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 9:12 PM Subject: Re: [plug] Courseware: Open Source Software Commercialization > On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 05:43:25PM -0800, david paraiso wrote: > > DEFINITION > > > > http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition_plain.html > > > Hi David, > Does open source fit into your IT outsourcing projects? > > _ > Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph > To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
