CAT exam crashed. I wonder-if (bet!) it is the M$/"blue screen" thingy.
We may want to send that letter on "why FOSS" to IIMs, also with a link to their own Prof De's research. -d ------------ The competitive CAT exam that went online for the first time this year ran into trouble for the third consecutive day Monday when a computer crash stalled the exam at centres in three cities - Mumbai, Bangalore and Ghaziabad, a leading coaching institute said. 'The major reason for this (computers crashing) was a virus attack. All precautions were taken for quarantine, but despite that the attack took place. In some places, there was a problem of hardware. For instance, if a switch failed it took about two hours or more for it to be changed,' Barua said. http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20091130/812/tnl-iims-give-cat-aspirants-another-life.html On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Venkatesh Hariharan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 8:21 PM, H.S.Rai <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:33 AM, narendra sisodiya >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > A leading bank in India saved Rs 100 crore by moving from MS Office to >> > Open Office. >> >> During a presentation in connection with "World Habitat Day", on slide >> number 41 ( http://www.slideshare.net/hsrai/world-habitat-day ), I >> gave example of saving 100 crore by use of FOSS. >> >> We can quote this with more emphasis (and listener will get more >> confidence) where ever possible, if we do know name of bank. So I >> request to share name of bank. >> > Prof. Rahul De of IIM Bangalore authored a report on the economic impact of > FOSS which showed that India can save close to Rs 10,000 crores by switching > to FOSS. > > The study, titled, 'Economic Impact of Free and Open Source software – A > Study in India', shows that LIC saved Rs 50 crore, New India Assurance saved > Rs 80 crore, the i...@schools project in Kerala saved Rs 49 crore by moving to > FOSS. The report can be downloaded from > http://www.iimb.ernet.in/~rahulde/RD_FOSSRep2009.pdf > > Please circulate it widely. > > Venky > > _______________________________________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in > > _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
