____/ John Bailo, Texeme.Construct on Tuesday 07 August 2007 20:06 : \____
>
> http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3874
>
> "Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu Chooses SUSE Linux Enterprise
> for 30,000 Desktops and 1,880 Servers
>
> Tuesday August 7, 12:00 pm ET
>
> Move to open source software eliminates tens of thousands of
> proprietary software licenses and reduces hardware costs by 25 to 80
> percent
>
> SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LinuxWorld Conference
> & Expo -- The Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT) in India
> is rolling out SUSE® Linux Enterprise across 30,000 desktops and 1,880
> servers in Tamil Nadu's schools, after ELCOT itself has migrated its
> entire IT infrastructure from Microsoft* Windows* to SUSE Linux
> Enterprise Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop from Novell®."
Much bigger numbers in Kerala (30 million people). Apparently they will use a
Debian derivative, but Red Hat it there managing the migration as well.
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