SARS looking for enterprise Linux support

09 Mar 2005

The South African Revenue Service (whose outsourced online tax submission system still doesn't support anything but Windows and Internet Explorer over 7 months after a go-ahead to support them) seems to be putting that behind them and has released a tender for enterprise Linux support on their SARS tenders list. 11 days to respond to a tender of that magnitude? Ouch!

3 Responses

  1. Jacques — March 10, 2005 at 02:37 AM.

    I'm assuming that they are assuming that only the big boys are going to submit tender documents?

  2. greenman — March 11, 2005 at 06:44 PM.

    Though they're requesting the document in MS Word format, according to Tectonic :)

  3. rudi — March 16, 2005 at 09:51 PM.

    Look carefully at the Tender, you'll see that it was compiled with someone (Umm read Novell) in mind already.... I mean, who else has a partnership with IBM, and can provide indemnicfication on software patents... no brainer... SARS suck. How about the right to tender fairly?

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