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Tamil Nadu (India) Shutting the Door On Microsoft
aprasadh writes "The government of Tamil Nadu, a state in southern India, has begun initiatives to convert all of their IT systems fully to OSS-based software. (The link is a copy of a news item that appeared recently in the Deccan Chronicle, an English-language daily.) 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." From the article: "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 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... I require at least 500 trainers to train 30,000 state officials across Tamil Nadu in the next six months."
> The terrorists in this case are - I don't expect you to believe me, but I used to live there - the Buddhist clergy and their puppets, the Sri Lankan government.
Yeah, but because you took the peaceful step of assassinating an Indian prime minister, you're a bunch of terrorist scumbags for 1.1 billion people. Actions, Consequences.
Go somewhere random
Yah, I have to admit. Had it been anything other than Suse, I would have considered this to be a good thing. Now its just...meh.
"Thanks for all the money you paid to us. We've used it to buy off ISO among other things" -Microsoft
You fucking retard. South Carolina has a population of 4 million people. Tamil Nadu has 61 million people, with 30k civil servants.
I'm sure they're very similar IT infrastructures. Really.
Not to mention a few posts up from your extremely insightful post, the issue is discussed in comparison to the UK's government IT infrastructure/economy.
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