Comments on: Round Two Project Proposals: The Fine Print http://gov2.net.au Design by Ben Crothers of Catch Media Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:51:50 +1000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Nicholas Gruen http://gov2.net.au/about/projectproposalsfineprint/comment-page-1/#comment-2064 Nicholas Gruen Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:56:50 +0000 http://gov2.net.au/?page_id=743#comment-2064 Phil, You're comment got moderated by the system for some reason and hasn't been released for several days. Sorry. However your comment is pretty wide of the mark. The money has been lying in what we've now called 'The Project Fund' for some considerable time. The question is whether we use it (which necessitates agreement with Microsoft) or not. Your choice. Well actually it was our choice and I'm happy with the choice. Phil,

You’re comment got moderated by the system for some reason and hasn’t been released for several days. Sorry.

However your comment is pretty wide of the mark. The money has been lying in what we’ve now called ‘The Project Fund’ for some considerable time. The question is whether we use it (which necessitates agreement with Microsoft) or not. Your choice.

Well actually it was our choice and I’m happy with the choice.

]]> By: Phil http://gov2.net.au/about/projectproposalsfineprint/comment-page-1/#comment-1915 Phil Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:31:19 +0000 http://gov2.net.au/?page_id=743#comment-1915 SIGN A CONTRACT WITH MICROSOFT !!! Is this so called Government stupidly limiting itself to Microsoft ?? Most successful blogs run on other technologies, in fact you subscribe to two majors and they don't run on MS. I know and have worked on several previous government projects that have failed pathetically and cost the taxpayer ridiculous amounts of money, just to get up and running. I am reading todays current article in the AFR confirming this. Your are also limiting yourselves with the South East Asia regions, in sharing ( selling) technology and joint communications. These regions are not MS focused at all. I am also amazingly reading your whole of Government agreement with MS. To limit web2.0 development does not take into consideration an 'open' platform. With the rising use of mobile phones, e-pc etc with most of these not running on ms, your are limiting the use of your developments. To force smaller australian development groups to code in garbage and use dated, expensive unreliable software, you are limiting your applications and functionality. I will follow this with keen interest and raise further questions with my member of parliment. I will also ask him to look into one particular local government migration to crappysoft. This "fine print" is a joke !!! SIGN A CONTRACT WITH MICROSOFT !!! Is this so called Government stupidly limiting itself to Microsoft ?? Most successful blogs run on other technologies, in fact you subscribe to two majors and they don’t run on MS. I know and have worked on several previous government projects that have failed pathetically and cost the taxpayer ridiculous amounts of money, just to get up and running. I am reading todays current article in the AFR confirming this. Your are also limiting yourselves with the South East Asia regions, in sharing ( selling) technology and joint communications. These regions are not MS focused at all. I am also amazingly reading your whole of Government agreement with MS. To limit web2.0 development does not take into consideration an ‘open’ platform. With the rising use of mobile phones, e-pc etc with most of these not running on ms, your are limiting the use of your developments. To force smaller australian development groups to code in garbage and use dated, expensive unreliable software, you are limiting your applications and functionality. I will follow this with keen interest and raise further questions with my member of parliment. I will also ask him to look into one particular local government migration to crappysoft. This “fine print” is a joke !!!

]]> By: David Vaile http://gov2.net.au/about/projectproposalsfineprint/comment-page-1/#comment-1427 David Vaile Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:58:55 +0000 http://gov2.net.au/?page_id=743#comment-1427 "There will, of course, be other fine print you will need to read, but the rest can wait until the successful bidders have been selected and the contracts are awarded!" A comment: it is preferable to have proposed terms available as early as possible, as there are sometimes things in 'the fine print' which turn out to be important enough to change the viability of the proposed arrangement, for some potential collaborators or some projects. This is especially so where the process is run at high speed. So it'd be better practice to have all the fine print visible from the start. Cheers, David “There will, of course, be other fine print you will need to read, but the rest can wait until the successful bidders have been selected and the contracts are awarded!”

A comment: it is preferable to have proposed terms available as early as possible, as there are sometimes things in ‘the fine print’ which turn out to be important enough to change the viability of the proposed arrangement, for some potential collaborators or some projects. This is especially so where the process is run at high speed. So it’d be better practice to have all the fine print visible from the start.

Cheers, David

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