Hi Rod
Thanks for the information.
Enterprise Metasearch (comcepta ag) - no justifications in the text boxes
We should contact them and tell them to fill out the text boxes.
GridSAM (University of Southampton) - Q9 has not been answered in the Software View - it doesn't make any difference to the rating though
We should contact them and tell them to complete the rating. I notice that they also filled out all the views in the framework.
Grimoires (University of Southampton) - Form completed satisfactorily
Looks complete.
OpenOffice.org (The Open Learning Centre) - Form completed satisfactorily
Their answer to question five may not be correct. "optional Java included for some extra features, but Java is now GPL"
I'm not sure if 100% of Java is now available as GPL software. We'd need to check this.
Zimbra (London Connects) - Form completed satisfactorily - Please ignore the 2nd application - they had trouble with the timeout problem
Looks complete, but some questions: Q3 is about accessibility. They state full conformance. I believe discussed this before, but are there not formal guidelines for accessibility conformance in Europe? The submitter in this case suggests that because the application runs in a browser it fully conforms. I doubt this is the case.
Answers like "Q09 Can the product be modified by the user?" raise a question: does the hosted version of the product - the version used in practice by London - have features or other aspects that are different from the Free Software non-hosted version?
If so, the score should be different.
Answer to Q17 also raises questions. "Zimbra themselves and over 300 partners provide support" does not automatically mean that the other partners are in a position to offer top tier support.
Also, I have observed a number of companires that have registered but not applied their products for certification: * AVG Transport Heijen BV * IBM UK Limited * Guerrilla Networkz * Orchard Information Systems Ltd. * CIRB * De Winter Information Solutions * BioXpr * P-Soft di Codebue Fabio & C. sas * Royal Haskoning * Openbravo * itics * Noel-Baker Community School I can provide fuller details but the GNUE screen doesn't do 'select all' so I can provide a screenshot instead
Do you think we should prompt these people to certify?
We also need to quickly clarify who contacts the submitters if there are questions. For instance, as I mentioned above, there are some areas where we could do with clarification on the existing submissions.
Shane