[Ambassadors] Bengal taps IBM, Red Hat for open-source centre

[SaadAlDine AlSaidi]

Hello All, 
It is very vital and important, when governments start doing something 
regarding proprietary operating systems,  by this project they will be 
closing doors of monopoly, and opening new horizon for a free development 
environment, free computing and yet in future providing citizens the ability 
to using computers in every house hold.

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SaadAldine AlSaidi

On Sunday 13 May 2007 20:33, susmit shannigrahi wrote:
> "The West Bengal government is planning to set up a centre of
> excellence in developing applications based on open source software,
> which has emerged as a threat to proprietary operating systems like
> Microsoft Corp's Windows.
>
> The government has finished the first round of discussions with IBM
> and Red Hat Linux on the proposed centre of excellence, which will be
> the first in India involving a state government. "
>
>
> Read on..
> http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=163820