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Indian Military Organization To Develop Its Own OS

Posted by timothy on from the there-are-drawbacks-to-this dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Several newspapers have reported that DRDO (the defence R&D organization of the Indian military) is planning to create an OS. The need for this arose due to the cyber security concerns facing India and that all [conventional] operating systems are made outside India. About 50 professionals in Bangalore and New Delhi are expected to start work on this operating system." At least one of the linked articles says the new OS, though home-grown, would run Windows software.

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  1. SHIVA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    "SHIVA just went down!"

    "Re-summon! Re-summon! VISHNU is also under attack!"

  2. Re:Cost by masterwit · · Score: 0, Troll

    I can't wait for the poor bastards to try outsourcing development to India.

    Um...this is India that is developing this? I do understand the sarcasm though.
    On that note, from India's Economic Times

    "We have to protect it (data)," Saraswat said, adding, "Only way to protect it is to have a home-grown system, the complete architecture...source code is with you and then nobody knows what's that."

    He said DRDO is putting in place a dedicated team of 50 software professionals in the Bangalore and Delhi software development centres to accomplish the task.

    I am not trying to be demeaning, but that is a small number of people for one task...considering this is India.

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  3. If the 90s are to be a guide. by Lord+Kano · · Score: 1, Troll

    6 months after the OS is declared done, all of the developers will have anchor babies in the US and their replacements will determine that the code base is a mass of unintelligible crap.

    LK

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  4. Re:The Wheel by Sir_Lewk · · Score: 0, Troll

    Playing with vocabulary doesn't nullify the point of the saying.

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