On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Arun SAG<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I thought it would be nice to share it here: > http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62056441,00.htm?scid=rss_z_nw
So myopic. Most standards are just specifications. Implementations are either open source or closed source/proprietary. What is meant by standards here are tools, platforms and software stacks. Most services vendors in India are tied into proprietary stacks to service clients abroad. Most of the US still runs on proprietary stacks. These service organisations are so short sighted that they do not see the opportunity. Roll back to circa 1984. The Rangarajan committee for Banking Reforms specified Unix as the platform. In a year's time, India was Unix country. By 1987, India had a huge body of expertise which provided a impetus to Unix porting, tuning and applications services exports. HCL and Wipro were the main beneficiaries. If Indian Govt now standardises on OSS, this will lead to a body of expertise getting built up perforce. This will provide a second growth innings thrust which will be based on expertise rather than labour arbitrage. This is precisely the role expected of a policy making body and Govt as the largest customer taking stances to guide India's ICT competitiveness. The Western world will soon move towards OSS and India needs to be poised for that. Hope good sense prevails amongst the powers that be. -- Mohan Sundaram _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
