--- Narsingh Sahu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > not in the Military as such. And it connotes - > ruggedness, robustness, conformance to strict > standards etc. Now thats the first correct answer i had received on this thread. I would say more than Military it is the top brass(governmet portion controlling) which look for this kind of certification. > > Some other misgivings - DRDO does not lay out > military > specifications. It is the research wing of Defence. > It > is not the user. Good answer agian. > > Certain sections of the Indian Military are > Linux-aware. Some efforts are being made to make use > of Linux in server-end. Where security is the > concern, > Trusted Solaris is prefered to Linux. Cost is not > the primary criteria, but solidity and service > availability are. i would add, several army officials are working on bringing linux in normal usage. But for high availability systems, Solaris is still used over Linux > But things are bound to change, with the 2.6 kernel > and more and more mainline software being available > with stable versions. I believe the ILUG community > can > act as a catalyst by arranging > demos/seminars/symposiums targetted at > decision-makers > in the Govt./Defence.
Lets hope for this. reagrds VK ===== Disclamer The facts expressed here belong to everybody, the opinions to me. The distinction is yours to draw... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
