Comments on: Microsoft and Spain: Open Source Challenge http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2009/05/06/microsoft-and-spain-open-source-challenge/ by Stephen E. Arnold Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:55:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Angel Maldonado http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2009/05/06/microsoft-and-spain-open-source-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-50866 Angel Maldonado Wed, 06 May 2009 08:52:15 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=6264#comment-50866 Stephen, we often read MS and other vendors marketing announcements of this type that make it to the wire but in practice have very light or zero impact. Education, as all other government areas (but defense and exterior) are transferred to or distributed into the 17 Spanish regions named Autonomous Communities. Finally, there is no basis for connecting this PR with Enterprise applications. Again, for any vendor attempting to reach Spain, the highly distributed nature of the market must be taken into consideration, state level agreements are week and consolidation may only occur dealing with each Autonomous Community as if it was one separated country. @angelmaldonado Stephen, we often read MS and other vendors marketing announcements of this type that make it to the wire but in practice have very light or zero impact.

Education, as all other government areas (but defense and exterior) are transferred to or distributed into the 17 Spanish regions named Autonomous Communities.

Finally, there is no basis for connecting this PR with Enterprise applications. Again, for any vendor attempting to reach Spain, the highly distributed nature of the market must be taken into consideration, state level agreements are week and consolidation may only occur dealing with each Autonomous Community as if it was one separated country.

@angelmaldonado

]]> By: Borja Ramirez http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2009/05/06/microsoft-and-spain-open-source-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-50854 Borja Ramirez Wed, 06 May 2009 08:22:02 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=6264#comment-50854 Thanks for pointing me to this interesting article Stephen. I personnally work with a few of the regional gov agencies (i.e. Comunidades Autonomicas) on entreprise search proyects and the two most broadly used technologies are Open Source (Lucene) and IDOL Server by Automomy. Microsoft has still a lot of terrain to gain in order to penetrate the ES local market. However, I see little impact in the deal that Microsoft has cut with Zapatero in order to give every student in public schools in Spain a laptop. Microsoft has probably given away all these laptops at very low cost (if not freely), what´s wrong with that? My opinion is that this deal will not affect the technological strategy of gov agencies, who work in a very disgregated manner. These agencies continue their investments in enterprise search technology, regardless of the new deal in education. Thanks for pointing me to this interesting article Stephen. I personnally work with a few of the regional gov agencies (i.e. Comunidades Autonomicas) on entreprise search proyects and the two most broadly used technologies are Open Source (Lucene) and IDOL Server by Automomy. Microsoft has still a lot of terrain to gain in order to penetrate the ES local market. However, I see little impact in the deal that Microsoft has cut with Zapatero in order to give every student in public schools in Spain a laptop. Microsoft has probably given away all these laptops at very low cost (if not freely), what´s wrong with that? My opinion is that this deal will not affect the technological strategy of gov agencies, who work in a very disgregated manner. These agencies continue their investments in enterprise search technology, regardless of the new deal in education.

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