I was perusing the wiki entry on the HB1197 meeting
(http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/HouseBill1197), and noticed
something:
Many of state's applications are mainframe based, most likely no similar
packages.
I'm not agreeing, I'm not disagreeing. But here's an interesting data point:
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 08:14:25AM -0500, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
Many of state's applications are mainframe based, most likely no similar
packages.
Which makes me wonder if:
a) The vendors are even kinda-sorta competent, and
b) if there may not be mainframe-side stuff that OSS could offload
One thing I've noticed..
Government employees HATE change and will fight it tooth and nail.
Example:
Goffstown, NH (where I grew up and was very involved) upgraded the
registration process for cars to computer. Before they would use
typewriters.
The staff was fully trained and given quick
On Thursday 26 January 2006 08:27 am, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
The problems that a state needs to solve are oftentimes niche problems
with no information on the solution required available to the public at
large that is open source hackers. However, I am sure that given a list
of
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 08:41:55AM -0500, Travis Roy wrote:
One thing I've noticed..
Government employees HATE change and will fight it tooth and nail.
s/Government employees/People/
Especially as it relates to technology.
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Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer
