Comments on: SQLAuthority News – Proposed eGov Standards Policy – Benefit for All or Only A Chosen Few http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/08/02/sqlauthority-news-proposed-egov-standards-policy-benefit-for-all-or-only-a-chosen-few/ Personal Notes of Pinal Dave Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:11:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ramdas http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/08/02/sqlauthority-news-proposed-egov-standards-policy-benefit-for-all-or-only-a-chosen-few/#comment-54422 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:12:26 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6509#comment-54422 Hi Pinal,
Is the policy stating the future IT work done to be done in India be done in open source or is it restricted to only government projects like e-governance.

Thank you

]]> By: pinaldave http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/08/02/sqlauthority-news-proposed-egov-standards-policy-benefit-for-all-or-only-a-chosen-few/#comment-54377 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 05:42:00 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6509#comment-54377 Hi Kuldip,

I agree with you that this is not normal article, however I felt like writing about this as this is burning issue right now and affects pretty much direction of IT of India.

This is also issue in many other countries as well.

Kind Regards,
Pinal

]]> By: Kuldip http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/08/02/sqlauthority-news-proposed-egov-standards-policy-benefit-for-all-or-only-a-chosen-few/#comment-54376 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 05:01:46 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6509#comment-54376 Hi sir,
I don’t expect article like this on this site,
this is very different article.Comment is also good.

]]> By: pinaldave http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/08/02/sqlauthority-news-proposed-egov-standards-policy-benefit-for-all-or-only-a-chosen-few/#comment-54372 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:42:21 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6509#comment-54372 Scott,

Thank you very much for your thoughtful comment. You are very correct and thanks for taking time to read it through.

Kind Regards,
Pinal

]]> By: Scott T. http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/08/02/sqlauthority-news-proposed-egov-standards-policy-benefit-for-all-or-only-a-chosen-few/#comment-54371 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:03:02 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6509#comment-54371 I will readily admit that I am not well versed in Indian politics, however, the US is having similar struggles in that IT and legislation often collide. I firmly believe that restriction of choice in IT (by legislation or otherwise) reduces the amount of competition and, ultimately, makes the consumer pay a higher price. I use both open source and commercial applications and development tools, and have found that neither set (on the whole) is superior.
Support for a number of open source tools can be difficult to come by, and at great expense because it is often a very small segment of the market, but commercial tools, while very robust, can be expensive and , at times limit the users options with ease of implementation in mind. The critical element of government (or any other) information systems is the information. I have found that data from any system can be compatible given the right ETL operations. With generic data formats, the data, can remain the most important part, as it should.

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