Does anyone have any info on what UID/Aadhar is using? They mention
Middle-ware is open source, which may imply rest of the stack is
proprietary/non-free. Also most contracts have gone to Wipro
(Nilekani's company) and MS hub.
Opps. Wipro must be read as Infosys. My bad.
Swapnil
http://efytimes.com/e1/fullnews.asp?edid=73727
OSS Used In Aadhaar To Avoid Vendor lock-in: Balasubramanian
EFY News Network
(Sunday, November 20, 2011 2:34:20 PM)
The main reason to use OSS (open source software) in the Aadhaar
project was not to save cost but to avoid vendor lock-in. And it
EFYTimes is clueless about what they write. They just re-post what
others post. You have posted two links one is just promotion of their
OSI Days which used to be LinuxAsia (changed because Microsoft, the
'sponsor' prolly did not want Linux name there). So we can credit
Microsoft for killing a
“We have also
reduced licence cost for the world’s largest distributed deployment on
thousands of CPU cores. We used OSS like Apache Hadoop, Hive,
ZooKeeper, MySQL, Tomcat, Spring and Mule. So far, 60 million
enrollments have been made in 18 months, and about 1 petabyte of data
processed and
yeah, using windoz on thousands intel cpu cores is so not _vendor lock-in_.
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Anivar Aravind
ani...@movingrepublic.orgwrote:
http://efytimes.com/e1/fullnews.asp?edid=73727
OSS Used In Aadhaar To Avoid Vendor lock-in: Balasubramanian
EFY News Network
(Sunday,
I've been to the UID registration camp in my area. There is no involvement
of linux/open source software. The data entry module was made in .NET and
was working on an HCL laptop with Windows. The backend, AFAIK, is running
on windows servers with MS SQL Server. It is truly sad.
As far as I
(Cross-posts trimmed.)
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Gaurav Paliwal
gaurav.paliwal1...@gmail.com wrote:
I've been to the UID registration camp in my area. There is no involvement
of linux/open source software. The data entry module was made in .NET and
was working on an HCL laptop with
IMHO, the use of open source, or the lack thereof, is a smaller
problem here: The lack of even a sham at protecting individual privacy
is a definite problem.
Personally, as far as I am concerned, it cannot be soon enough that
the IUD^W UID money-grab comes to an end. Too bad that it
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 5:01 AM, Vikas Rawal
vikasli...@agrarianresearch.org wrote:
IMHO, the use of open source, or the lack thereof, is a smaller
problem here: The lack of even a sham at protecting individual privacy
is a definite problem.
Personally, as far as I am concerned, it
Does anyone have any info on what UID/Aadhar is using? They mention
Middle-ware is open source, which may imply rest of the stack is
proprietary/non-free. Also most contracts have gone to Wipro (Nilekani's
company) and MS hub.
Can someone provide some concrete info or pointers?
--
bSwapnil
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya
swapnil.bhart...@gmail.com wrote:
Does anyone have any info on what UID/Aadhar is using? They mention
Middle-ware is open source, which may imply rest of the stack is
proprietary/non-free. Also most contracts have gone to Wipro (Nilekani's
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Swapnil Bhartiya writes:
Does anyone have any info on what UID/Aadhar is using? They mention
Middle-ware is open source, which may imply rest of the stack is
proprietary/non-free. Also most contracts have gone to Wipro
(Nilekani's company) and
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Sudhir Gandotra
sudhirgando...@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya
swapnil.bhart...@gmail.com wrote:
Does anyone have any info on what UID/Aadhar is using? They mention
Middle-ware is open source, which may imply rest of the
I've been to the UID registration camp in my area. There is no involvement
of linux/open source software. The data entry module was made in .NET and
was working on an HCL laptop with Windows. The backend, AFAIK, is running
on windows servers with MS SQL Server. It is truly sad.
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