[kictanet] Why is KRA (Customs) Application is Hard-Wired Microsoft?

[Walubengo J]

Hi all,

By getting lost in the technical details, Harry H would tell you that you are now thinking like IT Managers instead of Chief Information Officers(CIOs).  The problem here is NOT technical. This is business problem and requires a business solution rather than technicalities. 

If KRA was private organisation (and I think they have a whole commissioner of IT there?)  who would simply rule that what we needed was a system that can be used by any browser, on any platform from anywhere.  How the Consultant delivers on that, is his/her problem - KRA is doing the paying, Consultant must do the delivery - within a given time otherwise we simply switch to someone else who is more customer sensitive.

But then, KRA is not private (read a simple organisation) - and whereas Microsoft is private, it does know a thing or two about how to "massage" willing public orgarnisation into maintaining status quo.  And so I will understand when 10yrs from now, my son will still raise this very issue that his father complained about when he was still in primary school (I conceed with Yawe - it is like fighting with a wall)

walu.







--- On Sat, 12/3/11, S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya at gmail.com> wrote:

From: S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Why is KRA (Customs) Application is Hard-Wired Microsoft?
To: jwalu at yahoo.com
Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Saturday, December 3, 2011, 1:37 AM


On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi at gmail.com> wrote:

Let me pore over the presentations over the weekend and get the guy's details 

Maybe he meant whoever developed the system used client side VBscript..



http://www.w3schools.com/vbscript/vbscript_intro.asp


Client side VB Script only works in IE browsers and is not the same as VB.Net.

Javascript (supported by every major browser) is what should have been used in the Customs App.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/08/microsoft-bringing-html5-and-j.php



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