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Tamil Nadu (India) Shutting the Door On Microsoft

Posted by kdawson on from the penguins-on-the-march dept.

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."

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  1. What a laugh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ha Ha, this is chronic!

    What are 20 lakhs? Are they paying in bananas?

    What a joke! If these are the sort of people who use Linux no wonder a proper American company uses Microsoft.

  2. Just how open ? by Joebert · · Score: 0, Troll
    I require at least 500 trainers to train 30,000 state officials across Tamil Nadu in the next six months.

    I can't wait to get that first email from the Governor of Tamil Nadu telling me how Viagra changed their life.
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  3. In Other News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Microsoft Buys Novell, adds DRM and Activation to SUSE in Auto Updates. Two days later, SUSE auto update downloads Windows and automatically replaces SUSE. The first thing users know about it is when the system reboots after the update and Blue Screens.
    Government of Tamil Nadu is Angry and switches to Red Flag Linux.

  4. Ever notice is STINKS everywhere in India by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ever notice is STINKS everywhere in India and how you can't get away from it?

  5. Re:Suse? by bl8n8r · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yes, I stopped reading it after that. As far as I'm concerned, in principle, SuSE is no longer OSS. Sign the petition. http://www.techp.org/

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  6. Fixed a Few Typos, Re:Vista's a scam! by twitter · · Score: 0, Troll

    You made a couple of typos

    If anyone is interested then please deposit a small sum of money $1,000 into my bank account to cover the cost of Visa and other associated licensing. Because I am so desperate for developers I will be paying $100,000 so it is really only a very small sum of money.

    That's the song we've been hearing about closed source software making you rich. The "economic benefits" of Vista make me laugh every time I read about them. It's like a casino, they don't build and run them by giving money away. It's better to pool your money and talent with people who share.

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  7. Might as well use msft, as suse by walterbyrd · · Score: 0, Troll

    In fact, as far progress for foss goes, I think I would rather see them using them msft.