{"id":117,"date":"2007-04-27T16:27:46","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T08:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=117"},"modified":"2007-04-27T16:27:46","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T08:27:46","slug":"soe-the-fat-meat-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"SOE – The Fat Meat, now available"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah, finally, the SOE<\/a> tender<\/a> is<\/a> “released<\/a>” yesterday. After each consortium have blown their own trumpet on the news media for months, the details of the tender is finally available to the general public.<\/p>\n

For those who are interested to download the thing to take a look, visit Gebiz<\/a>, click on Tenders<\/strong> and search for keyword SOE<\/strong>. Or search by ITT No. IDA000ETT07000032<\/em>. Notice that this is round 2 qualification as round 1 already prequalified 4 out of the 6 participants<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This “transparent” tendering process in Singapore has obviously had many people’s heads turning, due to its sheer size (relative to the geographical size of the island-state heh.), as well as the thought of having ALL<\/em> government related desktops on the same environment. Where is democracy? Where is competition? What if there’s ONE vulnerability that got through the cracks and basically shut down the entire Singapore government? Naturally, every vendor is going to come to the table with the latest and greatest technology to solve this problem (moi included), but really do you want to risk this?<\/p>\n

Oh, about the consortium thing. For those uneducated (or not a regular Business Times or business section of your favourite paper reader) here they are (source ZDNetAsia<\/a>):<\/p>\n