Language is not a barrier in India. Being an Indian myself, I've seen more people interact with each other in this multi-lingual country than the regional languages. Thanks to the huge revoultion in IT and IT enabled services, english in India is much better than it was.
But the problem as I see of letting Linux into Government offices is MS. In his recent visit to India Bill Gates was able to woo quite a lot of politicians with his philanthrophic gestures( not to mention the hidden business motiveds). He has now won contracts in the Indian states of Karnataka and Andhra to supply MSWindows at a subsidised rate to schools. Even if the price is large MS would be churning out more dollars. It looked like more of a marketting campaign for his products........so rite now MS is the only problem...(not to mention his philanthropic attitude) and definitely not language.
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Language is not a barrier in India. Being an Indian myself, I've seen more people interact with each other in this multi-lingual country than the regional languages. Thanks to the huge revoultion in IT and IT enabled services, english in India is much better than it was.
But the problem as I see of letting Linux into Government offices is MS. In his recent visit to India Bill Gates was able to woo quite a lot of politicians with his philanthrophic gestures( not to mention the hidden business motiveds). He has now won contracts in the Indian states of Karnataka and Andhra to supply MSWindows at a subsidised rate to schools. Even if the price is large MS would be churning out more dollars. It looked like more of a marketting campaign for his products........so rite now MS is the only problem...(not to mention his philanthropic attitude) and definitely not language.