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RFPs And Open Source Projects?

Posted by timothy on from the entrepreneurs-take-note dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "My company is currently sending out RFPs to various real-time collaboration software vendors. One of the packages we would like to persue is Jabber (the open-source IM/chat software at www.jabber.org). However, for open source projects, where should the RFP be sent? For Jabber, we may use Jabber.com as our reference. But, as my company possibly pursues other open source alternatives, how do we answer this question?"

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  1. Definition of RFP by JimTheta · · Score: 3, Informative

    I thought others would appreciate a definition, so they wouldn't have to look it up, like I just did.

    Taken from Everything2.com:

    (thing) by daglo (print)

    RFP: Request for proposal. A long boring document filled with legalese which is supposed to be the equivalent of asking a vendor for a bid for service. In actuallity it is a demand for a bid which requires that said bid include and be subject to certain requirements. One could say it is akin to Satan's "Proposal for Bennefit in Exchange for Soul" which is hailed as a great masterpiece of legalese.

    This is a copy/paste; all typos are property of the author.

    It's probably not the best definition, but it answered all I wanted to know.

    -Grant/JimTheta

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