[ILUG] follow up to earlier thread on ROS Revenue Service

[Ciaran Mulloy]

Hi I wanted to forward a positive response to the ILUG Newsgroup that I 
received from a representative in the Revenue Commissioners as a follow up to 
an earlier thread concerning the Revenue on Line Service ROS. 
Ciaran

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Subject: FW: Linux
Date: Saturday 13 November 2004 13:40
From: "Hegarty, Conor" <chegarty at revenue.ie>
To: <cmulloy at esatclear.ie>

Ciaran


Sorry for delay in getting back to you.

A review of Unix/Linux support is planned for January...probably resulting in
release around April if we implement changes for these.

Conor



- -----Original Message-----
From: Ciaran Mulloy [mailto:cmulloy at esatclear.ie]
Posted At: 20 October 2004 18:58
Conversation: ROS certificate revoking
Subject: Re: ROS certificate revoking


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Ruth,
Many thanks for your response.
Do you have any firm indication when these later releases of ROS are likely
to
available to UNIX / Linux users. Do you have a firm date or is it more of an
aspirational objective at this stage?

I am aware of a number of people employed in the IT sector who are in a
similar position to myself. I believe that there is a sufficient demand for
the service on Linux / UNIX. I certainly believe that the demand is greater
that that from Mac users. What would the Revenue position be in such a case?

Your Sincerely,
Ciaran Mulloy

On Wednesday 20 October 2004 12:39, you wrote:
> Dear Sir
>
>  "Unix/Linux
>    ROS has not yet been developed to run on UNIX or LINUX platforms. We
> anticipate developing this for later releases of ROS".
>
> As of yet I do not have anymore positive further news on this development.
>
> Yours sincerely
> Ruth Murphy
> Revenue Online
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ciaran Mulloy [mailto:cmulloy at esatclear.ie]
> Posted At: 19 October 2004 13:04
> Posted To: Ruth
> Conversation: ROS certificate revoking
> Subject: ROS certificate revoking
>
>
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>
> Hi
>
> I had used the ROS service some time ago. I haven't used it since as I
> changed
> operating system to Linux because of the widespread fears about viruses and
> security issues. Indeed subsequent news items concerning the widespread
> distribution of viruses and security on Windows have served to reinforce my
> original decision to move to Linux.
>
> At the time I was told that the ROS service was only available on Windows
> and
>
> Mac operating system. Has this position changed? I was told that the
> service would be extended to Unix and Linux operating systems.
> What is the current status of delivering ROS on Linux? If its not currently
> available when do you expect it to be available?

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Regards,
Ciaran Mulloy,
Mobile: +353 87 251 3155
email: cmulloy at esatclear.ie

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email: cmulloy at esatclear.ie
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