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- lyzz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6This is old news, but the project should be completed by now which I guess is new news.
From the article.
The upgrade to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 is in its second quarter, expected to be completed by the end of June 2006. - i440, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"unstable areas"
By that, what do you mean exactly? India has of the lowest per capita crime rates in the world, so crime isn't a factor. - hchaudh1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@badbox
Obviously you have never been to India. Run down, third world, I think not. But yeah it will be decades before India comes, or even starts to come on par with the US.
But given the problems; poverty, over population, lack of resources, wasteful govt. spending, strife etc., India is putting up a pretty decent show. - Cybermagellan01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5And people wonder why they are taking our jobs. When the companies are reducing fees, streamlining corporate operations, and more it only makes sense for them to take our jobs. After all for all the people who promote Linux in the states, do you work with Linux in a Fortune 500 company? Now how many Fortune 500 companies are outsourcing?
- hchaudh1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Please don't turn this into a Country A vs Country B debate. This is an article about how a company is moving to Linux and hopefully reaping some benefits in the process. We have to follow and see.
For anyone making the switch to Linux, I say more power to them. It is to be expected though. I mean with govt. backdoors in MS software, its only natural that other countries will think twice about MS implementations in their software.
Also, MS has quite a few resources invested in India, so I am thinking they are not taking this lying down either. This is another thing which will force them to think about being a competetive company. - sanman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Seems like Open Source technologies have been strongly closing the gap with their private closed source counterparts, and they've matured so much that it's only a matter of time before even the most entrenched customers start to bend to the pressures of cost-savings potential here. I mean, how far ahead of the mainstream-supported technologies does one need to stay, even as the mainstream keeps rising?
- MindTrigger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yep, you're a nerd.
- sporky, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Ok, I'm just a nerd, but I can't help but notice that the number of branches is a power of two (2^11).
- pdileepa, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4So, America is "First world", is it? Just remember Hurricane Katrina and decide who's third world.
I wonder how America would have coped if it had the same population density as India. - davehendrix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I came here to make the same comment. What...are these "branches" arranged into a binary tree or something???? What are the odds of it being a perfect power of two?
- hansamurai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well, maybe they started with only one branch and just doubled from there? Heh
- prammy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2LIC was one of SCO's biggest customers. I'm sure they are quite ecstatic about LIC going to RHEL. Wonder if they will sue LIC now :)
- williamdyer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@monsieurevil
Look up NSAKEY in Wikipedia. It gives a cogent explanation of what NSAKEY can be used for, and that includes installing backdoors in encryption modules - exactly what a bank would be concerned about. - doctornkul, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@ h2d2 (below)
"world highest number of HIV/AIDS infections"
Obviously you haven't heard of something called proportions. In the US, it is estimated that 1.5 million people have HIV. The population of the US is 295 million. It is estimated that there are 5 million cases in India. The population is 1095 million. Dividing 1.5/300 and 5/1100 shows us that actually India has a smaller rate than the US. (.004545...) vs (.005). - newtechfool, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes they are almost done rolling out Linux... that makes the following quote from the article that much more interesting:
“It is only later that we will start looking at other issues such as security.”
Wow did I just read that. Someone made the comment about training on UNIX. Perhaps they should start with the project managers LOL - rudinz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1well as far as I can remember...when they started the migration from COBOL to Linux...they were using Red Hat 8.0...So I guess RHEL 2.1 is better still...
- rudinz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thats true...My mother is a system admin in LIC and as far as I can remember they migrated from COBOL based systems to Linux 2.5 yrs back....and total migration is supposed to be done by now....
- foodbar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Their web site (hah!) wills till require "a modern browser, specifically IE 6 or Mozilla $whatever". It will work fine in @otherbrowsers but there will be an explicit javascript check to disallow @otherbrowsers.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0why did they go for version 2.1 when version 4.3 has been out for more than a year.
In either case the employee desktops will only run proprietary software and they dont even have internet access. So as long as they get their Office Suite along with some solitaire the users dont really care. - monsieurevil, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0What would those government backdoors be, exactly? Silly nonsense, especailly considering that after the Win2000 source code was leaked and examined by millions of people, you might just think they would have found that...
- h2d2, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I believe he was talking about the fact that India ranks 135 on the list of countries' per capita income or may be that it has the world highest number of HIV/AIDS infections...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29_per_capita
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/50820.html
Still it's good to see Linux prosper and help India improve... - hchaudh1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1You did.
- joshwehatetech, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1So who is going to be first to mention Microsoft in this article even though they switched over from Unix? Anyway, anytime I see the word COBOL I shake a little too.
--Josh - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -21/+2It's funny how such a run down third world country in one of the most unstable areas in the world has this massive booming economy.
Weird stuff. Good for them, though.
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