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| Time: 12:18 EST/17:18 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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After all the various European Linux pilots and U-turns, it appears India is about to teach us a lesson. While numerous city councils in Europe play with open source in small quantities (including Amsterdam's pilot, Munich's pilot and Birmingham's termination of its project), one Indian state is pressing ahead full steam. The state of Tamil Nadu, home to a population the size of the UK, is in the process of deploying 32,600 Linux desktop systems and training 30,000 government officials. Forty-three open source-based servers are also on the way to support key Government applications. | ||
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| #1 By 32132 (142.32.208.232) at 1/3/2007 12:53:51 PM |
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"I require at least 500 trainers to train 30,000 state officials across Tamil Nadu in the next six months."
Maybe wages are cheap enough in India that software costs more than the wages of 500 trainers. That isn't true in most western countries. |
| #2 By 13030 (198.22.121.110) at 1/3/2007 3:23:44 PM |
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#1, Probably true about India. Definitely true about western nations.
A software developer's salary runs about $10,000* in India. I would assume that it is significantly cheaper to hire a bunch of freshly minted productivity application trainers and use them for a month or two than it would be to legally license software in India. * And for that you get one quarter of the American developer's productivity, one tenth of the code quality, and one hundredth of the creativity. |
| #3 By 71487 (68.188.67.58) at 1/3/2007 3:25:35 PM |
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I don't know how well this project will work out, give it 6 months to a year and see what state its in I'm pretty sure that it won't work.
Note: I am a opensource and a Linux user. |
| #4 By 3653 (68.52.143.149) at 1/3/2007 6:55:40 PM |
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43 servers? wow, thats alot.
[snicker] seriously, this is a HEADLINE? i've got 8 windows servers coming on line this month. Somebody call ZDNet and schedule my interview. This post was edited by mooresa56 on Wednesday, January 03, 2007 at 18:57. |
| #5 By 8556 (12.207.97.148) at 1/4/2007 9:11:27 AM |
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The "news" is that 32,600 desktop systems are being deployed with Linux. This is no big deal. If their software runs well on Linux, their choice makes sense. But it's really not serious news, it's more like trivia.
mooresa56: ZDNet is busy getting ready for CES. Fox News will be contacting you later today. |
| #6 By 9589 (71.50.174.17) at 1/4/2007 11:02:29 PM |
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Some thoughts . . .
ZDNet actually admits that there is a problem with the other open sore deployments! That should be the headline. So, lets recap. The entire administrative capability of the state government of a state in India, with 60 million people, is going to be run on 30k computers and 43 servers? Change the above headline - this should be the headline. Oh! Wait. The "reporter" forgot to put the deployment into perspective. How droll of him! We don't how many computers and servers are presently used for the effort. We don't how many are Windows based, Solaris based, etc. In fact, we know nothing excecpt some ity bity deployment of open sore is taking place and ZDNet continues to slather of the slightest open sore anything as if it is earth shattering. About that headline - call it the bottom story of the day - zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz |
| #7 By 32132 (64.180.219.241) at 1/5/2007 12:08:19 AM |
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You know whats hilarious ... Munich is buying 2000 used Windows 2000 licenses in order to keep functioning while waiting for the mythical conversion to Linux.
http://bink.nu/Article9190.bink |
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