networkmagazineindia.com — All of LIC’s 2,048 branches, 100 divisional offices, seven zonal offices, head office and subsidiary offices will be covered by the deployment. Along with this all of LIC’s desktops will also simultaneously be converted to Linux. Approximately 60,000 users and five to six thousand servers will migrate to RHEL.
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Closed AccountJul 21, 2006
I 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?
h2d2Jul 21, 2006
I 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...<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29_per_capita">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29_per_capita</a><a class="user" href="http://www.technewsworld.com/story/50820.html">http://www.technewsworld.com/story/50820.html</a>Still it's good to see Linux prosper and help India improve...
sanmanJul 21, 2006
Seems 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?
newtechfoolJul 21, 2006
Yes 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
monsieurevilJul 22, 2006
What 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...
williamdyerJul 22, 2006
@monsieurevilLook 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.
foodbarJul 23, 2006
Their 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.