Hello , After visiting OSS Conference,there are many questions coming in my mind and as i know list is the most easy way to get the answer of every question if it is all about GNU/Linux. Please don't mind for my bad language it looks very crazy (like my ideas, few bit here and bytes there) Smae content after facing spell check process is also available on my WebLog site rajeev.modblog.com and as i don't have anysoftware to check my grammer so trying my best to be good here.
Everybody is right in the industry and everybody is free to give comments about it's position and existance and as well it's power.After all It is all about GNU/Linux. Presence of Linux here in delhi i felt very less in compare to bangalore..till now it is in business plans,ideas,Talks,promotion seminars and etc. (Except it is always very much present on the dear Delhi LUG mailing list and other lists). Why till now Linux is in the pocket of Geeks and Techies ..even after geting so much support from everybody . The main questions list if we prepare for "why don't you use Linux" mostly we get It is complex It is not for end users No support My mission critical applications are runing on Windows ,how to migrate them. I am not in the position to migrate my infrastructure just now , market is slow. How to train my existing staff for Linux and i can;t change my staff. It sounds free but it is not,i have to pay very high to get support and so on.... May be a person like me ,who is using Linux since a long time and know it's power and flixibilities..can overcome from all the mentioned questions. But what about a person ,just heared about Linux and using Windows/other O/S since a long time. Then we say Linux is a matter of choice and you will get to know about it after using it for some time and there is no doubt about it.He will be impresed with the power of Linux after using it but how many will choose to use it and implement it, for testing to feel it's power and who will do it for them. May be we have a answer for them right now...there are many mailing lists and doc sites which will give you directions and views for "HowTo use Linux ". Instead of that ..one can get easily support,updates ,this and that after making his choice for windows. I read about a story before few days Linux Users Willing To Pay the Price http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nf/20030515/tc_nf/21520 Are we going in this direction..... The government is upbeat about open source and has a few good projects using open source (BARC, NIC, NCST). But how much it is affecting the presence of Linux in the government sector? A technology becomes very known,famous and part of life as our need , when it is easy/familiar to handle ,and don't give a second thought to us when we choose to implement it. Linux has crossed many mile stones on this path ...and going very fast to grab it's right position in the market.(happy linux time) :-) linux is becoming usefull for the following areas. 1.Personal use 2.co-operate s3.For scientific research projects 3.For scientific research projects 4.For schools and with the current status ..money making field for the mass of Linux Base companies is CO-OPERATE SECTOR. Where we implement linux for messaging services,website hosting/web applications,networking,software development etc. The number of Linux Geeks and developers are increasing day by day and market is unable to generate same number of jobs same time (specialy in Delhi As i felt here after shifting from Bnagalore). It is very right that Linux is giving very productive and inovative ways to the developers to share the knowledge,ideas,resources,team work attitude (usually we miss it many times) etc. But when we talk about generating revenue from it,we miss the roses from the picture. Are we missing something in the whole model of GNU/Linux ? Is it all about to be passionate about the work,knowledge,concepts,sharing knowledge etc and to be very very keen about generation money ? Is this model driven in a manner that it is not to generate money and everybody is just trying for their own shake ? It is all i want to say just now. Waiting for comments. /.Rajeev Sharma ------------------------------------------------- "Linux drives you from creativity to innovation" Rajeev Sharma My WebLogs at Freelance rajeev.modblog.com Linux consultant Contact No. 91-9811957144 --------------------------------------------- -- ______________________________________________ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with e-mail forwarding for only US$5.95/yr Powered by Outblaze ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore. If flattening out C++ or Java code to make your application fit in a relational database is painful, don't do it! Check out ObjectStore. Now part of Progress Software. http://www.objectstore.net/sourceforge _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
