____/ Lefty Bigfoot on Monday 21 January 2008 08:15 : \____
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:18:04 -0600, Matt wrote
> (in article <gG1kj.2275$Sa1.695@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
>
>>> India's largest Linux rollout forges ahead despite tremendous odds
>>>
>>> Elcot's decision to switch platforms was a daunting task but the
>>> opportunity to bypass yearly software licensing fees was an irresistible
>>> incentive
>>> 1/16/2008 6:00:00 AM
>>> by Kanika Goswami
>>>
>>> On May 26, 2006, Elcot (Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu) let in its
>>> first penguin. Things would never be the same again.
>>
>>> A year later, Umashankar and his team had moved 30,000 computers and 1,880
>>> severs belonging to some of the state's schools to Linux -- creating
>>> possibly the largest Linux rollout in India.
>>
>>> "First they migrated from Outlook Express to Mozilla Thunderbird for
>>> Windows. From there they took the mail folder and put it into the Suse
>>> Linux system, and started operating Thunderbird over Suse Linux system.
>>> Novel, isn't it?" Umashankar asks proudly.
>>>
>>> This interest helped his campaign to migrate completely to Suse Linux, from
>>> a 100 percent Windows environment.
>>
>> Notice the importance of a cross-platform application (Thunderbird) to
>> the project's success. The project director claims the approach to be
>> novel, but it was discerned years ago and will be one of the most
>> important elements of the Linux migration paradigm of the next 5-10 years.
>
> It's not remotely "novel" to do that with Thunderbird. It's how
> I got my email out of .pst format 4 years ago. They think this
> is "news"?
That's just the point. It has been possible to trivially escape Windows for
quite some time. The barriers have a lot to do with perceptions and lack of
patience (Linux is not "cheap Windows").
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