Linux a BIG hit in India (rediff.com) [LWN.net]

rediff.com looks at the deployment of Linux, particularly Red Hat, in Indian businesses. ""Linux has become prettly stable. We never considered Windows because of the perception that it has a lot of vulnerabilities. Hence, we adopted the Linux route and are satisfied with the results," says Tejinderpal Singh Miglani, CTO, Indiabulls. IDBI's Sanjay Sharma, Head IT, corroborates this view. IDBI has been using an Oracle HR management and financial accounting system, which runs on Linux. From Sharma's perspective, this is a "mission-critical" application. "We did evaluate options like Unix and Windows too. However, we did not want to be tied up to resource-hungry applications and any particular vendor. Besides, you hardly have a problem of viruses with Linux," he says."

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Linux a BIG hit in India (rediff.com)

Posted Apr 10, 2006 14:33 UTC (Mon) by nilesh (guest, #37042) [Link]

IndiaBulls is a financial services firm, especially in equity and derivatives. They have a online stock trading platform and they have recently gone public.

IDBI is Infrastructure development bank of India which has now forayed into consumer banking as well. They have been known for utilising IT to provide most user-friendly interface to the banking consumers.

Good news, but I would like to see more laptop manufacturers supporting pre-installed linux rather than treating it as a cheap option to reduce costs, assuming that the customer will install a pirated version of windows anyway.

Linux a BIG hit in India (rediff.com)

Posted Apr 11, 2006 11:31 UTC (Tue) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]

Hey, at least you can buy a name-brand laptop without windows in India. It's basically impossible in the US.

Besides, I like to choose my linux distro anyway, and I don't trust the manufacturer to configure things the way I want.

Laptops without Windows

Posted Apr 12, 2006 12:13 UTC (Wed) by dthurston (subscriber, #4603) [Link]

You can find laptops without a Microsoft tax from HP (their business
notebooks) and ASUS (their whitebooks, various resellers); these qualify
as "brand-name". You can also get laptops with Linux (and without paying
for Windows) from Linux Certified, Los Alamos Computers, or PCs for
Everyone, and get laptops without Windows from MSI and probably other
ODMs. Apparently you used to be able to get such laptops from IBM, but no
longer.

(In all these cases the laptops are actually cheaper without Windows, at
least when you compare to other customizable models.)