OSS In Corporate India

ScorpFromHell writes "This article gives examples of some corporations in India which have gone the OSS/Linux way, or are starting out. And it seems that Linux has made these corporations to take a look at other OSS applications too. Slowly and steadily OSS seems to be heard even outside the academic circles and the mailing lists. Localisation still remains one of the main focus of many OSS projects in India, which is a huge task as India has 15 "official" languages, each with its own script. There are thousands of dialects more if they are to be considered too! But without localisation it is difficult to introduce computers (let alone OSS) to the majority of the Indian population, even if it is to be one computer per village! One of the other stumbling blocks seems to be unavailability of Linux professionals. May be it is because Microsoft donates money and its software to the schools at subsidized prices that not many students learn about Linux?"

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so I guess

[coolcold]

Its time for IBM to put some of their resources to promote linux in india. Probabily they can take off 1/10 of their resource in China to divert to india since the customer base in india would probabily be higher as there are more new startups

Or is it...

[WalterGR]

May be it is because Microsoft donates money and its software to the schools at subsidized prices that not many students learn about Linux?

Well, that could be true. Or maybe...

Localisation still remains one of the main focus of many OSS projects in India, which is a huge task as India has 15 "official" languages, each with its own script. There are thousands of dialects more if they are to be considered too! But without localisation it is difficult to introduce computers (let alone OSS) to the majority of the Indian population...