[kictanet] Kenya Bureau of Statistics Advertises For Tenders For Free Adobe Reader...

[Odhiambo Washington]

Hi Adam,

Computerization in the govt is a BIG mess. It's more like bringing 1000
people each with their own computing device to an office and calling that
computerization. So yes, let someone quote for the provisioning. That
someone will have to install the software individually on N number of
computers.



On 17 February 2014 14:55, Adam Nelson <adam at varud.com> wrote:

> This is for provisioning, not the license.
>
> It's not totally unreasonable to charge 1k to install a piece of software
> if it's done professionally and at scale.
>
> One would hope that provisioning is happening via an image and people
> aren't installing software individually on computers one at a time.
>
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> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Josy Ngatia <josyveros at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I Second you on this....!
>>
>> It's very discouraging. Unless there was typo of the service description
>> from Adobe professional to Adobe reader..! Then the service is request is
>> wanting
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Michael Bullut <main at kipsang.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings Listers,
>>>
>>> I don't know how corruption smells but this looks like it! Read the
>>> article *here.
>>> <http://nairobiwire.com/2014/02/kenya-bureau-statistics-advertises-tenders-free-adobe-reader-corruption.html>*
>>>
>>> Warm regards,
>>>
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