yeah, using windoz on thousands intel cpu cores is so not _vendor lock-in_.
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Anivar Aravind <[email protected]>wrote: > http://efytimes.com/e1/fullnews.asp?edid=73727 > > > OSS Used In Aadhaar To Avoid Vendor lock-in: Balasubramanian > EFY News Network > (Sunday, November 20, 2011 2:34:20 PM) > > > "The main reason to use OSS (open source software) in the Aadhaar > project was not to save cost but to avoid vendor lock-in. And it was > important that we have an ability to replace hardware, software or > storage," Regunath Balasubramanian, principal architect of the UIDAI > (Unique Identification Authority of India) project said in his keynote > titled Use of OSS in Aadhaar project – The World’s Largest Identity > Platform at OSI Days 2011, Bengaluru. He further added, “We have also > reduced licence cost for the world’s largest distributed deployment on > thousands of CPU cores. We used OSS like Apache Hadoop, Hive, > ZooKeeper, MySQL, Tomcat, Spring and Mule. So far, 60 million > enrollments have been made in 18 months, and about 1 petabyte of data > processed and archived.” The continued success of Aadhaar can promote > the use of OSS in e-governance for large and complex systems, > Balasubramanian added. > > URL: http://www.efytimes.com/e1/fullnews.asp?edid=73686 > > _______________________________________________ > Ilugd mailing list > [email protected] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
