Re: [ILUG-BOM] Free Software for NGOs

On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 22:05 +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:

Hi,

I was just wondering; do NGOs in India look at FOSS as an alternative for cost-cutting at all? Has anyone on-list succeeded in introducing FOSS in any NGO-aided school or vocational training centre?

I dont know about NGOs but a CDAC training centre I know is trying to make the switch from Windoze servers to Linux servers. The problem is that the sys-admin there has zero knowledge about big professionally built servers. I dont claim to know either but using some "free proxy" on Win XP Pro speaks little of their tech know how. Internet "sharing" can be easily achieved using RRaS in M$ Win servers...