In India, labour is cheap. You can hire fairly good prog/sys adm for 1/4th-1/8th the cost of a moderately good American. Linux will help the small businesses, and provide more opportunities to folks (like me) who plan to enter the SMB market with Linux/FOSS consultancy services. (OK, currently I am outside India)
Considering the fact that US Gov/MS have a penchant for interfering, trying to strongarm anyone (including democracies), the less dependent we are on US tech, better for us.
The biggest gains from going F/OSS should happen in the Military, Edu and SMB areas, that's my guess.
BTW, stop trashing India folks. Yoga, decimal system, astronomy, Ayurveda (nature medicine), Meditation, Buddhism, Karate, Sanskrit etc originated in India. Do you westerners ever consider that? All that is FREE! No Patents, No Copyrights.
I am an Indian. I believe after a certain stage, there will be no stopping Linux (or *BSDs). The momentum for Linux is currently very weak, but is gathering speed every day. Why?
- Sooner or later India will grow strong enough to challenge US. Then Windows will be viewed with the kind of suspicion that the Chinese/Europeans do now.
- It is simply not attractive (market size) for MS to "Indianize" Windows, the way we Indians can do to Linux (eg All Native Languages, etc)
- I already see a trend that very IT savvy Indians tend to dislike MS for various reasons (trustworthiness, price-gouging,...)
- Pride. With MS & its software, you can only do sweatshop style jobs. With Linux, we can turn our programmers into reputable contributors, recognised the world over.
Like what many of/.ers found, I believe Eugenia has been very negative about Mandrake9. I have switched from RH to Mandrake about 1.5 years ago.I use the GUI tools infrequently, primarily relying on editing config files.
I have run Mandrake 8.1/8.2 on a variety of laptops, desktops, servers (Including a Quad Xeon IBM x350!). I have found Mandrake to be a solid distro with very useful packages bundled. I like the fact that I can get a IDS box in place with M8.2 in I am running M9 since RC1. I have not faced any major problems so far (Actually the system seems more responsive)
I hope to do a more balanced review in a week's time....
Ours is a small company (30 member). We build collaboration tools. We use our own webbased product for calendaring/scheduling. Most of the staff prefer to pop their mail to outlook from a purpose built POP/SMTP all in one device. Shared files are provided by a W2K+AD server. Some top folks would like to migrate to Exchange but the company hates to spend several thousand dollars in these difficult times. So, I will be soon implementing a Courier+LDAP+POP3 on Linux
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Fuck you AC. You don't even have the courage to login and post.
Remember Vietnam?
Remember Iraq?
Don't Mess with Asia
In India, labour is cheap. You can hire fairly good prog/sys adm for 1/4th-1/8th the cost of a moderately good American. Linux will help the small businesses, and provide more opportunities to folks (like me) who plan to enter the SMB market with Linux/FOSS consultancy services. (OK, currently I am outside India)
Considering the fact that US Gov/MS have a penchant for interfering, trying to strongarm anyone (including democracies), the less dependent we are on US tech, better for us.
The biggest gains from going F/OSS should happen in the Military, Edu and SMB areas, that's my guess.
BTW, stop trashing India folks. Yoga, decimal system, astronomy, Ayurveda (nature medicine), Meditation, Buddhism, Karate, Sanskrit etc originated in India. Do you westerners ever consider that? All that is FREE! No Patents, No Copyrights.
I am an Indian. I believe after a certain stage, there will be no stopping Linux (or *BSDs). The momentum for Linux is currently very weak, but is gathering speed every day. Why?
...)
- Sooner or later India will grow strong enough to challenge US. Then Windows will be viewed with the kind of suspicion that the Chinese/Europeans do now.
- It is simply not attractive (market size) for MS to "Indianize" Windows, the way we Indians can do to Linux (eg All Native Languages, etc)
- I already see a trend that very IT savvy Indians tend to dislike MS for various reasons (trustworthiness, price-gouging,
- Pride. With MS & its software, you can only do sweatshop style jobs. With Linux, we can turn our programmers into reputable contributors, recognised the world over.
Like what many of /.ers found, I believe Eugenia has been very negative about Mandrake9. I have switched from RH to Mandrake about 1.5 years ago.I use the GUI tools infrequently, primarily relying on editing config files.
I have run Mandrake 8.1/8.2 on a variety of laptops, desktops, servers (Including a Quad Xeon IBM x350!). I have found Mandrake to be a solid distro with very useful packages bundled. I like the fact that I can get a IDS box in place with M8.2 in I am running M9 since RC1. I have not faced any major problems so far (Actually the system seems more responsive)
I hope to do a more balanced review in a week's time....
My office folks were eating up 60% of the BW with Kazaa, I had no option but block at the FW, Now things are back to normal...
Ours is a small company (30 member). We build collaboration tools. We use our own webbased product for calendaring/scheduling.
Most of the staff prefer to pop their mail to outlook from a purpose built POP/SMTP all in one device. Shared files are provided by a W2K+AD server.
Some top folks would like to migrate to Exchange but the company hates to spend several thousand dollars in these difficult times. So, I will be soon implementing a Courier+LDAP+POP3 on Linux