Re: [PLUG] Government Sponsored Vendor lock

2010-07-30 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
> > Please contact Shantanu Oak who gave a session on shell scripting for > mysql sometime in May at some seminar or thw uch in Pune. > > I know for certain that the printed tickets from an ST bus and its > backend and the MSRTC online reservation is based on Centos. > > Various Departments of Gov

Re: [PLUG] Government Sponsored Vendor lock

2010-07-28 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Thursday 29 July 2010 10:45:07 Amarendra Godbole wrote: > There are other problems - most of the h/w vendors in India have no you mean corporate assemblers? > policy to refund license cost if you decide not to have Microsoft > software on the machines. In US and most of the EU nations, you ca

Re: [PLUG] Government Sponsored Vendor lock

2010-07-28 Thread Mayuresh
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:45:07AM +0530, Amarendra Godbole wrote: > when we have correct and working systems. As a parent, I care a hoot > about the OS that runs the online admission portal - as long as my job > is done, I am fine with it. Exactly. My point too was that. OS is immaterial, at leas

Re: [PLUG] Government Sponsored Vendor lock

2010-07-28 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Mayuresh wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 08:17:20AM +0530, Amarendra Godbole wrote: >> lost the battle already. It is also surprising to see many Linux folks >> who consider Microsoft as their #1 enemy. Hey, what about Oracle, IBM, > > At least on this list there

Re: [PLUG] Government Sponsored Vendor lock

2010-07-28 Thread Mayuresh
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 08:17:20AM +0530, Amarendra Godbole wrote: > lost the battle already. It is also surprising to see many Linux folks > who consider Microsoft as their #1 enemy. Hey, what about Oracle, IBM, At least on this list there was never a feel of anyone treating anyone as enemy or an

Re: [PLUG] Government Sponsored Vendor lock

2010-07-28 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > > On 7/26/10, Mithun Shitole wrote: >> Hi, >>      Engineering, Diploma etc. admissions processes are online. The >> website for it is dte.org.in . Unfortunately Technical board doesn't >> seems to care about users wh

Re: [PLUG] Government Sponsored Vendor lock

2010-07-28 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On 7/26/10, Mithun Shitole wrote: > Hi, > Engineering, Diploma etc. admissions processes are online. The > website for it is dte.org.in . Unfortunately Technical board doesn't > seems to care about users who don't use IE. When you go to > http://www.dte.org.in/FE2010/StaticPages/

[PLUG] Government Sponsored Vendor lock

2010-07-26 Thread Mithun Shitole
Hi, Engineering, Diploma etc. admissions processes are online. The website for it is dte.org.in . Unfortunately Technical board doesn't seems to care about users who don't use IE. When you go to http://www.dte.org.in/FE2010/StaticPages/Default.aspx , this is what it says: "Sorry, this Appl