India can live without Microsoft!

Dark_Angel

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Head over here for a rather interesting read:

http://uk.theinquirer.net/?article=36689

A small part of the article:

"Umashankar said that Vole might find it tough without a huge country like India buying its software. It is not that Vole did not try to convert the Tamil Nadu government. Umashankar had two visits from a top Vole to try and get him to change his mind but the money they were talking was silly.

The Microsoft sales person started off with a price of US $1,555 per seat. Umashankar said if she dropped it to US $225 he would consider it. She didn't so neither did he. He told her for US $135 per seat he could get the entire operating system, office productivity software and a wide range of utility tools, such as DVD/CD writing software, database software, multimedia editing software, vector map-drawing software plus a whole range of software development tools."
 
Good for them. Serves M$ right to be honest, imagine of they asked a UK company to shell out almost £800 per seat! They would be physically ejected from the building.

When I am in charge, which is only a matter of time, my new government will commission a devlopment of a Linux distro for the UK and I will also set up assembly plants for cheapo computers here to ensure that EVERY UK citizen gets a free PC with all they need. :)
 
How can you take any article that has such novice typos seriously, hehehe, i had to laugh to.... :D
 
Interesting. I've head of a lot of companies moving to linux and then about 18 months later moving back again. It's one thing moving, it's another still being as productive as you were.

Burnsy
 
Caged said:
People took the Inquirer seriously?
Click to expand...

What he said!
Not only does everything written on their sound like it was done by a 12 year old punk American kid with nothing better to do, half of it is total rubbish.
 
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