Re: [fsug-tvm] Violation of IT Policy

2009-12-10 Thread Aneesh A
Thanks Ashik, and all community members. By the way, who has given the news? Anyone from the group? Anyhow, Nice. On 12/10/09, Mahesh Mohan maheshmohan...@gmail.com wrote: There is a news snippet about this in Today's Mathrubhumi, page 13, bottom left. Read the news at bottom portion of

Re: [fsug-tvm] Violation of IT Policy

2009-12-09 Thread girish dw
well done ashik -- Freedom is the only law. Freedom Unplugged http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ilug-tvm group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Re: [fsug-tvm] Violation of IT Policy

2009-12-09 Thread JeevZ
Kudos Ashik..Hope they will take a positive decision.. On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 8:56 AM, girish dw giris...@gmail.com wrote: well done ashik -- Freedom is the only law. Freedom Unplugged http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [fsug-tvm] Violation of IT Policy

2009-12-09 Thread Ashik S
Umm dont thank me everyone - I appreciate the intention, but it is the community that responded :) I hope the community will do it again when situation demands. If not me then someone else. -- aashik -- Freedom is the only law. Freedom Unplugged http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received

Re: [fsug-tvm] Violation of IT Policy

2009-12-09 Thread Mahesh Mohan
There is a news snippet about this in Today's Mathrubhumi, page 13, bottom left. Read the news at bottom portion of this page http://epaper.mathrubhumi.com/index.php?id=9154cat=14date=2009-12-10 -മഹേഷ് മോഹന്‍ എം.യു -- Freedom is the only law. Freedom Unplugged http://www.ilug-tvm.org You

Re: [fsug-tvm] Violation of IT Policy

2009-12-08 Thread Ashik S
Hi all The tender expires tomorrow so inorder that the CM might take some action, I sent the letter via registered post as well as email today morning itself. The following were the contents. I thank everyone for pitching in with ideas, a translation and edits to the original letter. We,

Re: [fsug-tvm] Violation of IT Policy

2009-12-08 Thread V. Sasi Kumar
Good work, Ashik, and thanks. Best -- V. Sasi Kumar http://swatantryam.blogspot.com -- Freedom is the only law. Freedom Unplugged http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ilug-tvm group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: [fsug-tvm] Violation of IT Policy

2009-12-08 Thread sunil s
Good work Can we extend this movement towards other Governmental Institutions/Departments? Though most government offices are using computers as typing machines (which can even done in wordpad ), they are demanding Vista licenses, Microsoft Office 2007 On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:33 PM, V. Sasi

Re: [fsug-tvm] Violation of IT Policy

2009-12-08 Thread Jaisen Nedumpala
Hi, Please check: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2009-December/006454.html Regards, 2009/12/8 sunil s sunils1...@gmail.com: Good work Can we extend this movement towards other Governmental Institutions/Departments? Though most government offices are using computers as typing

Re: [fsug-tvm] Violation of IT Policy

2009-12-08 Thread sajith kumar
Congratulations ashik. On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:04 PM, sunil s sunils1...@gmail.com wrote: Good work Can we extend this movement towards other Governmental Institutions/Departments? Though most government offices are using computers as typing machines (which can even done in wordpad ),

Re: [fsug-tvm] Violation of IT Policy

2009-12-08 Thread sajith kumar
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Jaisen Nedumpala jaisuv...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Please check: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2009-December/006454.html Regards, 2009/12/8 sunil s sunils1...@gmail.com: Good work Can we extend this movement towards other Governmental

Re: [fsug-tvm] Violation of IT Policy

2009-12-05 Thread Kenney Jacob
I dont know who has the tender, but chances are that that Kuthhaka Muthlalai company reliance has it. I wonder how we are going to trust them with a lot of sensitive govt data. www.kenneyjacob.com Kenney Jacob Ayruz Web Holdings Mobile :- +91-9846831128 http://www.barcampkerala.org Chat Google

Re: [fsug-tvm] Violation of IT Policy

2009-12-05 Thread Rajeev J Sebastian
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Kenney Jacob kenney.ja...@gmail.com wrote: I dont know who has the tender, but chances are that that Kuthhaka Muthlalai company reliance has it. I wonder how we are going to trust them with a lot of sensitive govt data. The same way that we trust Microsoft ...

Re: [fsug-tvm] Violation of IT Policy

2009-12-05 Thread Kenney Jacob
Ah come on... Dont show that M$ hatered here.. without any base. How can you compare selling an OS and managing a data center. www.kenneyjacob.com Kenney Jacob Ayruz Web Holdings Mobile :- +91-9846831128 http://www.barcampkerala.org Chat Google Talk: kenney.jacob Skype: kenney.jacob --

Re: [fsug-tvm] Violation of IT Policy

2009-12-05 Thread Rajeev J Sebastian
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Kenney Jacob kenney.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Ah come on... Dont show that M$ hatered here.. without any base. Kenney, You read me completely wrong. If you've read any of my posts on this list, you wouldn't say that at all. You asked how can anyone trust

Re: [fsug-tvm] Violation of IT Policy

2009-12-03 Thread Ajith Sen
I have a doubt regarding this, not entirely connected to the discussion topic. Isn't this supposed to be a Govt. Tender? Why is a giant mistake or typo repeated in the Tender and Tender document? Its stated that a DD has to be taken of INR 5000/- and in words its written *Rupees Ten Thousand

Re: [fsug-tvm] Violation of IT Policy

2009-12-02 Thread Kenney Jacob
The following is an old post of mine and deals with another datacenter. Today I saw a saw a tender notice by the Kerala State IT Mission for setting up a state data center for the government of Kerala. The notice reads *Inviting competitive bids from qualified bidders against revised request for

Re: [fsug-tvm] Violation of IT Policy

2009-12-02 Thread V. Sasi Kumar
On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 01:05 +0530, Kenney Jacob wrote: The following is an old post of mine and deals with another datacenter. I too have found similar tenders (of course, not related to IT) before and wondered why they include some clause that keeps out smaller companies (which should

[fsug-tvm] Violation of IT Policy

2009-11-30 Thread V. Sasi Kumar
Please see the tender at http://www.itmission.kerala.gov.in/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=361:request-for-proposals-rfp-for-selection-of-tsp-for-setting-up-of-a-geoportal-and-clearinghouse-for-the-kerala-state-spatial-data-infrastructure-ksdicatid=49:tender-noticesItemid=44 It looks

Re: [fsug-tvm] Violation of IT Policy

2009-11-30 Thread Ashik S
i went through the software part of the docuement ( Its about155 pages ). Things i noticed. * They want it to be on Windows - IIS is named specifically in one place. * They want the application to be in java. * DB Server specs says that it should support Oracle RAC and DB2cluster * DB Server

Re: [fsug-tvm] Violation of IT Policy

2009-11-30 Thread Harish CM
From the evaluation of end user requirement can this venture be set up on a FOSS backbone? best/harish 2009/12/1 Ashik S aash...@gmail.com i went through the software part of the docuement ( Its about155 pages ). Things i noticed. * They want it to be on Windows - IIS is named specifically

Re: [fsug-tvm] Violation of IT Policy

2009-11-30 Thread Ashik S
On Tuesday 01 December 2009 10:53:10 Harish CM wrote: From the evaluation of end user requirement can this venture be set up on a FOSS backbone? There DB requirements specify a lot of features. I am not able to evaluate those things as i dont know much about databases. But the server software

Re: [fsug-tvm] Violation of IT Policy

2009-11-30 Thread Anilkumar KV
The whole Geoportal and Spatial Data Infrastructure can set-up entirely on Swathanthra Software platform. It seems there is a mis-concept among its initiators that, a Data Infrastructure require support for whole sorts of software. Setting up a Geo-portal and SDI as described RFP is against the

Re: [fsug-tvm] Violation of IT Policy

2009-11-30 Thread V. Sasi Kumar
On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 10:35 +0530, Ashik S wrote: All , right now what we can do is go through the document, form an opinion and post it on the write comments section of