Reliance's system is CDMA cellular technology launched under WiLL regulations. So it works just like a cell phone, but a phone will not work outside it's telecom district (usually a city-sized area). This is a regulatory limitation *not* a technical one.
Correct me if I am wrong -- but it seems to me that Microsoft's interoperability is often one way. For example, Win2k has inbuilt functionality to query LDAP, but limits what ADS will return to LDAP queries. The same is true of Kerberos. The net result is that in a mixed environment, MS servers will tend to push out non-MS servers.
Is this just paranoia on my part -- or do marketing considerations _really_ outweigh technical ones in Microsoft?
In India, where I live - a relatively free, democratic
country all ISPs are expected to provide (at
their expense) monitoring equipment for the
government. The same goes for Cellular Telephone
providers. There has not been a single peep of
protest here.
In most countries, including the UK and the rest
of the EU, there is not as much concern for
individual freedom as there is in the US.In
Singapore, for example, when Internet access was
first provided, it was through proxy servers so
that the government could censor the 'net. This
is still true of countries like Saudi Arabia.
I am quite sure that the FBI will never be
allowed to attempt the kind of monitoring that
is probably going on right now around the world.
If you live in the United States -- count your
blessings!
On Linux it's trivial to write an application in which certain modules are written C, and others in Perl, Python or what have you.
It's sheer hell to try to make different programming tools inter-operate in Windows, unless they're all parts of Visual Studio (and even then it's difficult)
On linux you have the luxury of picking the tool for the job. On windows you have to fit the job to the tools that M$ gives you.
We had a similar situation for one of our clients. Before undertaking the effort we insisted that they evaluate which documents needed to be digitised. They finally came to the conclusion that close to 70% of their paperwork didn't really need to be digitised. The remaining 30% was small enough that it was cheaper to do it manually.
Of course, this is India where everything is cheaper manually!:-)
The point is: Make sure you're solving the correct problem
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Reliance's system is CDMA cellular technology launched under WiLL regulations. So it works just like a cell phone, but a phone will not work outside it's telecom district (usually a city-sized area). This is a regulatory limitation *not* a technical one.
Correct me if I am wrong -- but it seems to me that Microsoft's interoperability is often one way. For example, Win2k has inbuilt functionality to query LDAP, but limits what ADS will return to LDAP queries. The same is true of Kerberos. The net result is that in a mixed environment, MS servers will tend to push out non-MS servers.
Is this just paranoia on my part -- or do marketing considerations _really_ outweigh technical ones in Microsoft?
Biju Chacko
Bangalore -- India
Just to fix a misconception:
It's not the Indian Government.
This group has been formed by NASSCOM which is an Indian association which claims to represent the Indian IT industry.
Amongst those of us who really do any work here, NASSCOM is well known as a publicity machine for
Mr Dewang Mehta.
This is obviously a publicity stunt and 14-year-old Wali will be out of a job the moment the headlines generated by this story evaporate.
In India, where I live - a relatively free, democratic country all ISPs are expected to provide (at their expense) monitoring equipment for the government. The same goes for Cellular Telephone providers. There has not been a single peep of protest here.
In most countries, including the UK and the rest of the EU, there is not as much concern for individual freedom as there is in the US.In Singapore, for example, when Internet access was first provided, it was through proxy servers so that the government could censor the 'net. This is still true of countries like Saudi Arabia.
I am quite sure that the FBI will never be allowed to attempt the kind of monitoring that is probably going on right now around the world.
If you live in the United States -- count your blessings!
It's sheer hell to try to make different programming tools inter-operate in Windows, unless they're all parts of Visual Studio (and even then it's difficult)
On linux you have the luxury of picking the tool for the job. On windows you have to fit the job to the tools that M$ gives you.
Biju
Of course, this is India where everything is cheaper manually! :-)
The point is: Make sure you're solving the correct problem
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