BUSINESSES are also starting to use [GNU]Linux more freely due to the tremendous savings they can make. Computers still cost Rs 25,000 or so -- and almost a similar amount goes into the software. When a business needs to buy a lot of computers, that amounts to staggering costs. -- Mala Bhargava, BusinessWorld (India) March 3, 2003
GUESS WHICH Indian company has bagged the biggest export order in the telecom sector? Midas Communications, a seven-year-old R&D company based in Chennai, focussing on rural telephony, has just picked up a $12-million (around Rs 60 crore) order from Egypt. It will install 200,000 telephone lines based on the corDect wireless in local loop (WLL) technology that it has developed in partnership with the Tenet grouup, spearheaded by IIT- Chennai professor Ashok Jhunjhunwala. -- M Anand in BusinessWorld (India) March 10, 2003. (Prof Jhunjhunwala has long focussed his attention around GNU/Linux)
WITH COMPANIES such as HP, Microsoft, Red Hat, NIIT and Reliance putting serious money into it, the vernacular computing market in India looks set to bloom in 2003.... The Simputer has a GNU/Linux embedded system with local language support... Red Hat will launch a Hindi-enabled 9.1 version (Linux) in the next six months.... NCST IndiX Project will enable Hindi and other Indian languages on GNU/Linux systems. IndLinux (offers) support for Hindi on Gnome. Swathanthra Malayala Computing Project (offers) support for Malayalam on Gnome. IIT Madras (is working on) support for Tamil on GNU/Linux system. -- Report by Priya Srinivasan, spanning four pages, Business Today (India), March 16, 2003.
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