This brings another angle ........ Why did no one do it before ?
valid point!
BTW, microsoft is not making the portal, it is being made by infosys.
I dunno about that... but then isn't it the same old East India Company thing... you grow cotton, I'll give you clothes. Even if Infosys does make the portal... the products that they'll use will essentially have Microsoft palstered over them. Either way, they win.
I
suspect microsoft will pour a lot of resources into the project since it will become a "showcase".
Exactly... and I would want my state's government to do any foolishness of this kind.
And, more than the portal, my worry is that, as the same article says,
the
Karnataka Government is moving to zero piracy. This means, they will pay a huge quantum of tax money to microsoft to buy M$ software for PCs, etc.
Well as long as its legal its OK. But then money spent is legally a waste!
May be someone should initiate an e-governance project in linux for them
Maybe we should pay close attention to the storm that brews under our own feet.
Warm wishes,
Amol Hatwar.