On Wednesday 25 January 2006 03:23 pm, Fred wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 January 2006 10:39, Richard Soule wrote:
> ...
>
> > Some things that can help: Be a HUB (Historically Underutilized
> > Business, usually women or minority owned with bonus points for
> > being both),
>
> I might have thought this
Fred said:
> On Tuesday 10 January 2006 10:39, Richard Soule wrote:
> ...
>> Some things that can help: Be a HUB (Historically Underutilized
>> Business, usually women or minority owned with bonus points for being
>> both),
>
> I might have thought this would come up due to this being the governmen
On 1/25/06, Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Personally, I consider it condescending to land a contract on the basis of
> being a "minority" or "woman".
Personally, I hate Lima beans.
-- Ben
___
gnhlug-discuss mailing list
gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 10:39, Richard Soule wrote:
...
> Some things that can help: Be a HUB (Historically Underutilized
> Business, usually women or minority owned with bonus points for being
> both),
I might have thought this would come up due to this being the government
we're dealing wit
On Jan 10, 2006, at 10:25, Jon maddog Hall wrote:
Considering the bill going forward, perhaps the issue of "open source
solutions
aren't usually considered" is old news.
Yes, I'm aware of the thread topic. Note the use of past tense in my
statements - I'm suggesting the RFP process may hav
Getting on the list can be difficult. Most states have a 'Statewide
Contract' which means negotiating with the state purchasing folks. They
often demand special concessions (you can never charge us more than you
charge any other customer), access to internal sales information (so
they know that
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> This may be a catch-22. I've considered applying for the approved vendors
> list (there's a real name for that) but was told open source solutions
> aren't usually considered so I didn't.
Bill,
Considering the bill going forward, perhaps the issue of "open source s
On Jan 10, 2006, at 08:48, Python wrote:
However, I suspect another
issue is the RFP process commonly used for government purchases. Many
open source projects have no sales or marketing arm to deal with an
RFP.
Does anyone know if that really is an obstacle to getting open source
to
be cons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
I sent a note to Roy Maxfield, my rep and a sponsoring
committee-member, but I haven't heard anything back.
- --Bruce
Python wrote:
|On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 14:35 -0500, Ed Lawson wrote:
|
|>On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 13:53:30 -0500
|>Ted Roche <[EMAIL PROTE
While Open Source projects do not have a sales and marketing arm to deal with
RFPs, corporations like Red Hat, Novell, IBM, HP, Dell, Sun and others do.
To a lesser extent, VARs, Distributors and Resellers also do answers to RFPs.
md
--
Jon "maddog" Hall
Executive Director Linux Interna
On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 14:35 -0500, Ed Lawson wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 13:53:30 -0500
> Ted Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > "New Potential Legislation
> > An Act establishing a committee to study requiring NH state
> > government to consider using open source software when
> ac
11 matches
Mail list logo
