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Ärende: You gotta love the indians
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From: Ad <Dobbin@theStablesCloseToTheAirport.com>

http://mandriva.blogspot.com/2007/01/tamil-nadu-india-may-shut-door-on.html

"The Tamil Nadu government, which is on a fast-track pushing the state to the
top in the Indian IT sector, has almost shut its door on the software giant,
Microsoft, preferring the Open Source Systems (OSS) for reasons of costs and
easy migrating capabilities.

“Initially, 99 per cent of government systems have been running on Microsoft
systems but then 2007 will be a watershed year for the state IT sector. We are
fast migrating to Linux operating systems which are so much cheaper and can be
operated at low cost, besides offering continuous updates and freedom from
viruses,ö says Mr C. Umashankar, managing director of state-owned ELCOT, vested
with the responsibility of overseeing such ambitious government projects as
e-governance, enumerating the beneficiaries of the free TV scheme, family
ration cards and the free sari-dhoti distribution.

“We have already dispatched 6,500 Linux systems to village panchayats and
another 6,100 Acer desktop systems with Suse Linux operating systems are on
their way. We are procuring 20,000 desktop systems for schools, which will run
only on Suse Linux. Remaining 30 desktop systems will also migrate as and when
the new machines arrive,ö Mr Umashankar told this newspaper.
He said all the ELCOT servers were on Redhat Linus and the government IT
company’s 28-seater software development wing was fully on Suse Linux.

“We will train over 30,000 government officials in Linux Operating Systems and
Open Office. A contract has been already finalised with the government
departments and we have set up a Linux support centre with two Linux-certified
professionals to assist the state officers. This number will go up to ten or
more in 2007, which will be a path-breaking year for government on migration to
Linux Operating System,ö Mr Umashankar said. “India can live without Microsoft
packages and even progress but Microsoft will find it tough without a huge
country like India buying their software packages,ö he said."

Fair enough but the funny part is.....

"He said he had also pointed out to the Microsoft official that MS Office did
not allow saving of documents in open document format. While it was possible to
open all MS Office files using Openoffice.org, the vice versa cannot be done.
“I asked her why ELCOT should buy such an inferior product when Openoffice.org
is available free of cost for Windows as well as Linux."

ROFLMAO.....

Adam

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