On Wednesday 24 Aug 2005 10:05 pm, Rai, Vivek BGI UK wrote: > > Start a company. Lookout for tenders floated by the > > government. Quote > > a price that's less than what others quote. > > Correct me if I am wrong please. In this case, Maharastra govt. > simply first appointed MS (or one of its "solution providers") to > consult on what to do. NOT surprisingly, they did NOT recommend any > free, or non MS software, and now MS is providing all the > solutions. > > So, I suspect there was NO open tender process. If there had been > an open process, Novell/RH/Suse could have tried.
you mean that even then no *indian* *opensource* company would have tried? -- regards kg http://www.livejournal.com/users/lawgon tally ho! http://avsap.org.in ಇಂಡ್ಲಿನಕ್ಸ வாழ்க! -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

