<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hi all,<br><br>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. <br><br>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.<br><br>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)<br><br>walu.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 12/3/11, S.M. Muraya <i><murigi.muraya@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: S.M. Muraya <murigi.muraya@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [kictanet] Why is KRA (Customs) Application is Hard-Wired Microsoft?<br>To: jwalu@yahoo.com<br>Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br>Date: Saturday, December 3, 2011, 1:37 AM<br><br><div id="yiv1609113172"><br><div class="yiv1609113172gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Dennis Kioko <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow"
ymailto="mailto:dmbuvi@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=dmbuvi@gmail.com">dmbuvi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="yiv1609113172gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Let me pore over the presentations over the weekend and get the guy's details <br></blockquote><div><br>Maybe he meant whoever developed the system used client side VBscript..<br>
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<br>Client side VB Script only works in IE browsers and is not the same as VB.Net.<br><br>Javascript (supported by every major browser) is what should have been used in the Customs App.<br><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/08/microsoft-bringing-html5-and-j.php">http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/08/microsoft-bringing-html5-and-j.php</a><br>
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