Email system.

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009, Ben Duncan wrote:
> Having been on the state contract list for about 18 years now, I can assure
> you all is fair in the bid process - NOT !!!!
>
> I imagine it is a WINBLOWS shop and/or someone they already have designed the
> bid specs. FOSS is being mandated as a cost saving measure but the
> central ITS authority, but in reality WE ALL KNOW the score.
>
> As a matter of fact on of my State cleints in which we set up
> email server with clamav, spamassassin, horde/imp, postfix and cyrus
> less than 30 months ago. One of their agency head decided they need support for
> blackberry's and EVEN thought I told them about Funambol that could be added,
> the spent about 25K+ for a Exchange replacment that could support 1200 
> Email accounts.
>
> Sheessss ....
>
>
> I just wanted to bid on it and possible BLOW them all away with a
> zero cost software solution.

We ran into the same thing almost 15 years ago when we did a
proposal for all the Community Colleges in Washington.  Our
proposal was way less than the Micro$oft solution, and some
enlightened IT people who had been running SCO Unix for years
without problems really promoted our solution.  Unfortunately the
politics and the fact that M$ pretty much owns all IT in this
state meant that we lost.

When dealing with government, you have to remember that their
goal isn't to provide good services at minimum cost, but to
increase their power and the number of direct reports for any
``manager''.

Bill
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