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MISTICA: Re: Open Source in Brazil

From: Carlos Afonso ([email protected])
Date: Sun Oct 13 2002 - 08:53:03 AST

>http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=4614&do=gpage

Not only that. At the server level, the government is massively relying
on Microsoft, even migrating some UNIX systems to Win 2000.

MS licence purchasing is a major business within some government
departments - with lavish purchases of individual licences when they
could force the purchase of licencing agreements instead, at much lower
costs. One wonders who within these departments profits from this
careless procurement.

Also, most government sites not only do not pass the most elementary
WAI-compliance tests (including Socinfo-built sites!) but mostly run
adequately only on MS Internet Explorer - some might run "by accident"
with Netscape 4.x under Windows, since this version of Netscape uses
Windows' native MJVM (Microsoft "Java" Virtual Machine) instead of the
true Java runtime from Sun. But this seems to be just by accident...
This means they went beyond just deciding to use MS products - they
seemed to have converted MS into their religion!

To complete the picture, there is no technical body within the
government doing serious strategic research on the implications of open
source for costs, security, local technological development, or on
formulation of open source policies and the like.

Open source? Maybe with the next government... :)

rgds
--c.a.

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