any updates ?
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 17 Dec 2008 9:24:59 am Shashishekhar S wrote:
>> > Dr Nagarjuna could you please give us some guidelines so that things
>> > will be clear to all those who want to be part of this.
>>
>> Is there any prior experience -- in terms of deploying free software
>> for government organizations -- elsewhere?
>
> there is extensive experience in Tamilnadu - recently 45,000 computers were
> distributed to govt departments with Suse linux. The electricity board runs
> on RHEL. However, for govt, the vendor has to be recognised by the govt -
> afaik both Suse and RHEL are recognised. Usually govt will not install things
> like debian or ubuntu without a vendor to back them up. If this person really
> has the authority to do this - and the govt allows him, it would be best to
> go through either Redhat or Novell. But, as I have already mentioned in this
> thread, Karnataka government has a clear policy of using only microsoft.
>
> --
> regards
> KG
> http://lawgon.livejournal.com
>
> >
>
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