Totally wrong Even Redhat is free (i.e we can use a copy of rhel) On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 5:16 AM, Saral Sasidharan <saralsasidha...@gmail.com > wrote:
> Hiii > Today i got a chance to visit a Co-opertive bank to inspect some > networking there. They are using a SW Perfect Bank which is provided by > another co-operative firm COSTEC G8 Elankom gardens Vellayambalam . They > solely is the distributors,HW vendors and trainers . As per Govt policy > they have to provide free SW platform applications they even has Linux > version of there application but promote Windows based sw . There servers > are hosted with Windows 2000 or 2003 server edition costing 54,000 they > charges 70,000 to 90,000 for there sw Perfect Bank per branch in an estimate > more than 3 Lakh per bank goes for SW . You all know in co-operative sector > it's always lover class workers money is dealed and a lot of money are going > to this section atleast the cost can be halved if linux is promoted. The > main reason they are avoiding linux stating printer compatability if some of > our guys can find some good Linux supported dotmatrix printers (80 column as > well as 136 column) we can mail the GM of the company or personally meet and > tell him to atleast give customer to choose the OS option. Another reason > stated was there are server versions of Linux which are not at all free or > costs near to Windows server edition is this true? > > The GM of the company is Mr Saaju Ph No 9447027093. > > Hope you all will try to provide some solutions. > > Saral > > -- > Hav a nice day > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---