> Biju Chacko wrote: > > > However, that finally does imply that one cannot blindly point at > > these cases and say that they are major wins for open source. They're > > good, but they aren't that significant in the greater scheme of > > things. Certainly nothing for the /. crowd to go beserk about.
I was at a NASSCOM CIO meet in Delhi yesterday and the fact that LIC is implementing Linux in 2,500 branches certainly made an impact on the people I met here. It makes people look at open source in a new light. Also, knowing the LIC people and Dr. DB Phatak of IIT Bombay who advised them to go open source, I can say that these are extremely hard nosed professionals who know exactly what they want and what price they should pay for it. The acquisition of JBoss by Red Hat (my employer) will take open source deeper into the enterprise. I am keeping this short, else it will end up sounding like a plug for my company :-) Venky
