India goes Linux
p2pnet.net News:- Microsoft and a lot of other US companies have opened production and research facilities of various kinds in India, but any hopes they may have had of using them as beachheads appear to have been dashed.
“The Indian government seems to be taking a leaf out of China’s operating system, and is planning a countrywide drive to promote the open source operating system, Linux, as the ‘platform of choice’ instead of ‘proprietary’ solutions,” says The Economic Times of India.
And, “For proprietory, read Microsoft, which controls over 90% of the desktop software market.”
India’s Department of Information Technology is already planning for Linux and open source software as a de-facto standard in academic institutions, especially in engineering colleges through course work that encourages use of such systems, says the story, and Microsoft, “has announced investments worth only $75m over a three-year time frame in India”.
However, China’s Redflag Software has often come out with low-cost software based on Linux, in direct competition to Windows-based softwarem says The Economic Times of India, going on that India, as a developing country, needs low cost solutions.
And, “Like China, the government is also eyeing the increasingly lucrative global support and services market for the Linux environment may prove lucrative,” it adds, quoting a source as saying with applications in security as a focus area, “inputs have been sought from the Defence on their experience with Linux. Indian-language based solutions, e-governance, embedded and high performance cluster solutions are other areas. But firstly we want to concretise the position on IPR issues in the use of Linux.”
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