20 Impactful Indian Open Source Projects Recognised At Open Source India Week
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| Open source solutions and projects that can dramatically change the
| day-to-day lives of the average citizen were recognized at the conclusion of
| the recently held Open Source India Week 2008 (OSIW). Twenty of the best
| projects from entries received through the last one year, were declared
| winners of the FOSS India Awards for 2008. OSIW, India’s largest Linux and
| Open Source conference and expo, formerly held under the banner of LinuxAsia
| for four years at Delhi, showcased solutions for business, mobility and human
| welfare.
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http://www.indiaprwire.com/pressrelease/internet/200802227567.htm
Not exactly Free software, but another new one:
Greenplum Updates Open Source Database
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| New features in Greenplum 3, which is based on the PostgreSQL open source
| database, includes parallel loading in excess of 3.5 terabytes per hour.
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http://www.intelligententerprise.com/channels/business_intelligence/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206801311
Recent:
The World Watches As OSIW Kicks Off In Bengaluru!
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| India's premier event on Linux and Open Source -- Open Source India Week 2008
| (OSIW) -- has just got under way, with the stage set and the big shots of the
| open source world in at Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. The CTO
| Summit -- the first and one-of-its-kind session -- kick-started with the
| keynote of one of the open source powerhouses, Brian Behlendorf. He is the
| man behind Apache Web servers that run more than 60 per cent of the world's
| website.
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http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/24663/news.htm
‘Cost sensitivity is greater in India’
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| [Q] What about individual consumers?
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| There will be a class of applications that capture some degree of their
| imagination such as what Firefox or Open Office did. But by and large, most
| consumers are still going to get their technology through the purchase of
| other products embedded with OSS.
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| If there was more enforcement of the intellectual property law (of
| proprietary software), there would be more demand for running Linux.
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| [Q] What is the future of OSS adoption in India?
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| Usage will increase. The IT industry will push heavily for OSS in the next
| one-two years in the solutions that they deliver for their customers
| remotely. In some cases, they will even obscure the use of it.
| (Several) call centres in India are no longer using Windows on the desktops
| in front of the agents because it is a Web-based interface.
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http://www.livemint.com/2008/02/19010808/8216Cost-sensitivity-is-gre.html
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