[osol-mktg] Re: OpenSolairis a choice for the government desktop? // Re: [osol-discuss] KDE, GNOME, etc.

[Felix Schulte]

On 12/19/05, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
> Felix Schulte wrote:
> > Having two desktops does not make sense for the customers - and KDE is
> > the primary government desktop here. Support for KDE will be a
> > requirement for further contracts as far as I can see from my POV. The
> > European governments are looking into further ways to save costs and
> > having the burden of a KDE desktop which is not supported will not
> > generate bonus points when Sun tries to compete with other open source
> > solutions here. Sun Germany will likely hit tendering procedures where
> > KDE is a REQUIREMENT very soon and IMO there needs to be a solution
> > for this problem ASAP as it will affect the sales on the whole
> > European continent.
>
> Why is the requirement KDE?   Is the requirement for specific functionality
> that GNOME doesn't offer?   Or do they specify a desktop whose name is
> spelled exactly "KDE"?
I do not know the exact details. As far as I know its partially a
political decision as KDE's main development body sits in Europe and
Europe likes to focus on European developments. Another reason stated
by the people who do the open source desktop transition for the German
parliament on the LinuxTag this year was that Gnome is considered
"inferior" compared to the functionality delivered with KDE after an
eight month evaluation period (using Suse Linux as operating system).
Spain had similar arguments, but for the exact reasons you may ask
(ex-)Suse Hubert Mantel.
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