On Sunday 28 June 2009, jitendra wrote:
Last year, 2008, the fyjc admission was made online using FOSS. The software is available for any one for asking. I was the architect on behalf of the government. I was instrumental in turning the decision of autorites from not going in for online to going in for online this year. That is when my contribution ended.
Last year we used the latest MySQL (5.0) when our engineers had not enough experience( was that a sensible decision ? I feel yes as it was essentially a pilot) . It took two days to locate MySQL expert who was familiar with settings ( Courtesy Dainik Bhaskar) and the dying server revived in 10 minutes.
Afaik MySQL has poor write capability under heavy load. Postgres would be a better alternative. However without adequate infrastructure (HA, LB, DR etc) such projects should never be attempted. The typical govt tendency to cut corners only brings a bad name to FOSS and the developer.