{"id":58,"date":"2004-03-05T02:42:47","date_gmt":"2004-03-05T07:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=58"},"modified":"2004-03-05T02:42:47","modified_gmt":"2004-03-05T07:42:47","slug":"meetings-policy-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/03\/05\/meetings-policy-meetings","title":{"rendered":"Meetings, policy, meetings&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>PC Gemilang<\/i> meeting thing happened. Discussing support, training, roll-out plans, and so on. I had a little agenda written up, and by the time a couple of hours was over, things seem a lot clearer now.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is offering free training, with their marketing dollars (or ringgit). Microsoft is however, <b>not offering media<\/b> &#8211; these machines that go out with RM149 Windows XP Home (Malay edition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techworld.com\/news\/index.cfm?fuseaction=displaynews&#038;newsid=1131\">aka XP-Lite<\/a>) and Works 2004 Suite will be images that are pushed out on disks. If a virus eats up your system, take it back for support. Seems a little arcane to me, no? And since we can&#8217;t touch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idg.com.sg\/idgwww.nsf\/unidlookup\/954F93F62C284D3F48256E4C00333C91?OpenDocument\">the images<\/a>, we can&#8217;t install a more usable browser like Mozilla or a full-featured office app like OpenOffice.org on Windows.<\/p>\n<p>Novell, with their recent acquisition of SuSe and Ximian are making inroads in Malaysia too. They tried for the PC Gemilang campaign, and failed due to cost reasons; now two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mncc.com.my\/ossig\/lists\/general\/2004-03\/msg00066.html\">colleges\/unis<\/a> are getting on the bandwagon. And even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbronline.com\/currentnews\/b30b8f852004873b80256e4c003851e8\">Sun&#8217;s coming up with &#8220;pricing for the people&#8221;<\/a> with their JDS. There&#8217;s an advantage of support here. If Red Hat rests on their laurels, they&#8217;re going to lose a large market here.<\/p>\n<p>For this to succeed, we need support from the other manufacturers in the Malaysian market &#8211; Dell, HP, and so on. Red Hat should look at the roll-out of Fedora and support it to some degree &#8211; because an additional 400,000 could be RHEL, no? Imran has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asiaosc.org\/article_191.html\">nice rant<\/a> on the entire project. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PC Gemilang meeting thing happened. Discussing support, training, roll-out plans, and so on. I had a little agenda written up, and by the time a couple of hours was over, things seem a lot clearer now. Microsoft is offering free training, with their marketing dollars (or ringgit). Microsoft is however, not offering media &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}