Re: Governments spending on IT

2004-05-05 Thread Eli Marmor
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 03:13:53PM +0300, Eli Marmor wrote: > > Tzahi Fadida wrote: > > > > > nothing to do with open source. For example, the govrenment could > > > have required for the bid that the resulting software should be > > > made available to the govrenment or/a

Re: Governments spending on IT

2004-05-05 Thread Oron Peled
On Wednesday 05 May 2004 18:16, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Did anybody bother test that it can actually build and work? At least with MS "Shared-Source" you don't get the build infrastructure to do it and it is *forbidden* to compile a working version, so you cannot and should not test if the sources

Re: Governments spending on IT

2004-05-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 03:13:53PM +0300, Eli Marmor wrote: > Tzahi Fadida wrote: > > > nothing to do with open source. For example, the govrenment could > > have required for the bid that the resulting software should be > > made available to the govrenment or/and to the public. > > Isn't it exac

RE: Governments spending on IT

2004-05-05 Thread Tzahi Fadida
MAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eli Marmor Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 2:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Governments spending on IT Tzahi Fadida wrote: > I have to disagree on that. The size of the project and ROI have ... You either didn't read my e-mail, or didn't understan

Re: Governments spending on IT

2004-05-05 Thread Eli Marmor
Tzahi Fadida wrote: > I have to disagree on that. The size of the project and ROI have > ... You either didn't read my e-mail, or didn't understand it. The original poster wrote (well, not exactly in these words...): "Hey, they budgeted 470M NIS for Merkava, let's use it for Open- Source!" So

RE: Governments spending on IT

2004-05-05 Thread Tzahi Fadida
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Governments spending on IT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > According to the Walla article at: > http://news.walla.co.il/?w=/3/538997 > > The government has agreed on spending 470 Million NIS on projects > "Merkava" and "Memshal Zami

Re: Governments spending on IT

2004-05-05 Thread Uri Sharf
It seems some parts of the project will be given to Kav Marachot, which though not "Open Source", deploys it's servers (and now it's Java Clients as well it seems) on Linux from what I've been told. Some security-aware users of Merkava (Ministry of Defenses and Ministry of Foreign Affairs) did

Re: Governments spending on IT

2004-05-05 Thread Eli Marmor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > According to the Walla article at: > http://news.walla.co.il/?w=/3/538997 > > The government has agreed on spending 470 Million NIS on projects > "Merkava" and "Memshal Zamin". > > With all the talks about OpenOffice, MS licenses vs. Linux etc. - does > anyone > here

Governments spending on IT

2004-05-04 Thread linux-il
According to the Walla article at: http://news.walla.co.il/?w=/3/538997 The government has agreed on spending 470 Million NIS on projects "Merkava" and "Memshal Zamin". With all the talks about OpenOffice, MS licenses vs. Linux etc. - does anyone here have thoughs on the effect of such spending on