Open source - Offshore development center opened in Kochi
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| Advanced Millennium Technologies - Bangalore has opened an exclusive
| center dedicated for open source development center in Kochi.
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http://www.indiaprwire.com/pressrelease/computer-software/200701181603.htm
Related:
India can live without Microsoft
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| More than 6,500 Linux systems have already been packed off to
| villages and another 6,100 Acer desktop systems with Suse on
| their way.
|
| Umashankar said that more than 20,000 desktop systems will be
| installed in schools that will only run on Suse. All ELCOT
| servers will run on Redhat. ELCOT expects to train 30,000
| government officials in Linux and Open Office too.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36689
AP to forge ties with MIT for open source software
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| The Andhra Pradesh government is forging ties with the Massachusetts
| Institute of Technology (MIT), US, for collaboration in the areas of
| e-governance, data standards and service-oriented architecture.
| "MIT will provide funding and technological assistance for
| developing and promoting different software components
| including an open source platform," said state IT secretary
| K Ratnaprabha.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andhra_Pradesh
Tamil Nadu (India) Shutting the Door On Microsoft
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| "The managing director of the IT procurement, consulting, and training
| agency for the Tamil Nadu government describes the reasons why he has
| chosen OSS, and also how he dealt with Microsoft executives."
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http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/03/0226229&from=rss
Kerala On Linux Express Highway
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| The Linux slip-road that the state took is slowly becoming an
| express highway.
|
| [...]
|
| If we twist Napoleon's quote on China a bit, we can safely say, "Linux is a
| sleeping giant, let it sleep, because when Linux moves the world moves!"
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http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/fullnews.asp?edid=16139&magid=11
Indian Policy Makers Call For Greater Use Of Open Source
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| A wide spectrum of policy makers called for the greater usage of open
| source to modernize India in the digital era and the re-evaluation of
| the laws pertaining to Intellectual Property. The event sought to examine
| the notion of intellectual "property," in the context of traditional
| knowledge, globalization and the growth of the open source movement
| worldwide.
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http://in.sys-con.com/read/281396_p.htm
HPCs Push Novell's Linux Business In Niche Space
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| Dismissing the allegations linking increase in Windows piracy to
| the bundling or selling of Linux with vanilla systems, as
| completely illogical, Menon said that apparently only about 60
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| percent of the desktops shipped in India have been shipping with
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| Official MS licenses for years together now. "Piracy has nothing
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| to do with Linux. Its just that today a credible alternative to
| MS has emerged for the first time," he said.
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http://www.channeltimes.com/India/News/HPCs_Push_Novells_Linux_Business_In_Niche_Space/551-78316-819.html
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