On Thursday 18 August 2005 06:55, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Wednesday 17 Aug 2005 9:33 pm, sherlock@vsnl.com wrote:
And why does the government require M$ when the the likes of TCS, Infosys, Wipro and others here are grabbing major contracts and sub contracts for egovernance from all and sundry. Or are they just microeserfs of the great frod HM BG.
just curious - has any major (or minor for that matter) company in india ever released anything significant under FOSS?
TCS (or one of the tata avtars) contibuted major parts of a sip gateway which is part of the vovida project. Wipro have their names listed as linux developers for TI's omap processors. Naturally. If they had to do something under any prop toolchain they would be debugging for the next 100 yrs. But overall the big boys using their age old tactics which is waiting for the grubs to bioform the biz environs, then stroll in with some fancy brouchers and laugh all the way to the bank (at the expense of most banks).
rgds jtd
Take a look at this guys
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/casestudies/casestudy.asp?CaseStudyID=171...
Anand M R libld.so@gmail.com wrote: Take a look at this guys
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/casestudies/casestudy.asp?CaseStudyID=171...
Infact I had actually been to one of the Data centres in AP, was depressing to see that even the e-governance webservers ran on Windows IIS!!
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Morning Dear,
You will need to setup and NGO capable of imparting training to National Informatics Centre nationwide if you would like to instill some confidence in them enabling them to develop apps on FLOSS.
Till then.......lets not keep criticising and look at the upsides of it all.
Trevor
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Anand M R libld.so@gmail.com wrote: Take a look at this guys
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/casestudies/casestudy.asp?CaseStudyID=171...
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On Tuesday 23 Aug 2005 9:52 am, Trevor Warren wrote:
Morning Dear,
You will need to setup and NGO capable of imparting training to National Informatics Centre nationwide if you would like to instill some confidence in them enabling them to develop apps on FLOSS.
NIC doesnt develop these big apps - they tender for it. No one needs training to run or use a web app. All they need to know is how to use a keyboard and mouse. Just that no open source compnay bid for the tender. Main reason being that there is no open source company in India. (there *are* companies which develop and deploy using open source platforms and tools, but they *dont* release their software as open source, so for all practical purposes it makes no difference to the community or the country whether e-gov runs on IIS on M$ or apache on linux)
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 10:14 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Tuesday 23 Aug 2005 9:52 am, Trevor Warren wrote:
Morning Dear,
You will need to setup and NGO capable of imparting training to National Informatics Centre nationwide if you would like to instill some confidence in them enabling them to develop apps on FLOSS.
NIC doesnt develop these big apps - they tender for it. No one needs training to run or use a web app. All they need to know is how to use a keyboard and mouse. Just that no open source compnay bid for the tender. Main reason being that there is no open source company in India.
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Really? :)
Regards,
ah
On Tuesday 23 Aug 2005 10:31 am, Amol Hatwar wrote:
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 10:14 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Tuesday 23 Aug 2005 9:52 am, Trevor Warren wrote:
Morning Dear,
You will need to setup and NGO capable of imparting training to National Informatics Centre nationwide if you would like to instill some confidence in them enabling them to develop apps on FLOSS.
NIC doesnt develop these big apps - they tender for it. No one needs training to run or use a web app. All they need to know is how to use a keyboard and mouse. Just that no open source compnay bid for the tender. Main reason being that there is no open source company in India.
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Really? :)
really and truly
India. (there *are* companies which develop and deploy using open source platforms and tools, but they *dont* release their software as open source, so for all practical purposes it makes no difference to the community or the country whether e-gov runs on IIS on M$ or apache on linux)
An FYI .. Apache is the most widely used webserver (in the world) which I am sure you know about. IIS on Microsoft has had many critical bugs in the past you can google them for your information. AND it does makes a difference practically or otherwise if you put people at risk by using infrastructure that can easily sabotage your mission. My intention is not to criticize M$, but atleast one does not expects sub-optimal solution for critical purposes.
A nice article
http://www.theregister.co.uk/security/security_report_windows_vs_linux/
Regards, Chirag R.
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On Tuesday 23 Aug 2005 11:38 am, chirag radhakrishnan wrote:
An FYI .. Apache is the most widely used webserver (in the world) which I am sure you know about.
yep - i seem to have heard about it
IIS on Microsoft has had many critical bugs in the past you can google them for your information.
got better things to do
AND it does makes a difference practically or otherwise if you put people at risk by using infrastructure that can easily sabotage your mission.
as long as someone comes forward to give an alternative - my point is that no-one has done this
My intention is not to criticize M$, but atleast one does not expects sub-optimal solution for critical purposes.
so where is the opensource tender package available? For that matter where is *any* opensource package specific to India available?
On Tuesday 23 Aug 2005 8:46 am, chirag radhakrishnan wrote:
see that even the e-governance webservers ran on Windows IIS!!
ran? if they ran, what is your beef?
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