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| The IT@School project in Kerala (where
| desktops replaced Microsoftâs Windows
| operating system with FOSS), the public sector
| behemoths Life Insurance Corporation of India
| (LIC) and New India Assurance Company and an
| unnamed private e-commerce firm are among the
| key case studies presented. For example, at
| the LIC, which handles digital data pertaining
| to over 100 million insurance policies, 3,500
| servers and 30,000 desktops (across about
| 2,155 offices) run on GNU/Linux.
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http://www.flonnet.com/stories/20091120262309200.htm
Recent:
Linux rising
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| As mentioned above, this market is seeing some
| significant growth. Letâs find out how far these
| companies have helped to push the Linux market
| upwards.
|
| Today, many of Red Hatâs customers with valid
| subscriptions are enjoying the benefits of newer
| versions or upgrades of RHEL which has integrated
| virtualization, high availability and failover
| solutions, storage enhancements, greater
| manageability and more. Red Hat is also the
| leading named (organized) contributor to the
| Linux Kernel accounting for 13.2% of these.
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http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20091019/market01.shtml
Interop Mumbai 2009: Open Source Is The Way Forward
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| Professor Rahul De, Hewlett-Packard Chair
| Professor for Sustainable Economic
| Development, IIM Bangalore presented his
| detailed report on economic impact of
| using open source. âIndia can save
| potentially Rs 10,000 crore by adopting
| open source technologies,â he said.
| âGovernment must consider educating public
| about virtues of free and open source
| software, and help reduce costs.â
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http://www.crn.in/Software-009Oct009-Interop-Mumbai-2009-Open-Source-Is-The-Way-Forward.aspx
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