Re: [PLUG] Government Sponsored Vendor lock

2010-07-30 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Please contact Shantanu Oak who gave a session on shell scripting for mysql sometime in May at some seminar or thw uch in Pune. I know for certain that the printed tickets from an ST bus and its backend and the MSRTC online reservation is based on Centos. Various Departments of Govt. of

Re: [PLUG] Government Sponsored Vendor lock

2010-07-28 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On 7/26/10, Mithun Shitole mithu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Engineering, Diploma etc. admissions processes are online. The website for it is dte.org.in . Unfortunately Technical board doesn't seems to care about users who don't use IE. When you go to

Re: [PLUG] Government Sponsored Vendor lock

2010-07-28 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan raju.rajs...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, On 7/26/10, Mithun Shitole mithu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,      Engineering, Diploma etc. admissions processes are online. The website for it is dte.org.in . Unfortunately Technical board doesn't

Re: [PLUG] Government Sponsored Vendor lock

2010-07-28 Thread Mayuresh
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 08:17:20AM +0530, Amarendra Godbole wrote: lost the battle already. It is also surprising to see many Linux folks who consider Microsoft as their #1 enemy. Hey, what about Oracle, IBM, At least on this list there was never a feel of anyone treating anyone as enemy or

Re: [PLUG] Government Sponsored Vendor lock

2010-07-28 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Mayuresh mayur...@acm.org wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 08:17:20AM +0530, Amarendra Godbole wrote: lost the battle already. It is also surprising to see many Linux folks who consider Microsoft as their #1 enemy. Hey, what about Oracle, IBM, At least on this

Re: [PLUG] Government Sponsored Vendor lock

2010-07-28 Thread Mayuresh
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:45:07AM +0530, Amarendra Godbole wrote: when we have correct and working systems. As a parent, I care a hoot about the OS that runs the online admission portal - as long as my job is done, I am fine with it. Exactly. My point too was that. OS is immaterial, at least

Re: [PLUG] Government Sponsored Vendor lock

2010-07-28 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Thursday 29 July 2010 10:45:07 Amarendra Godbole wrote: There are other problems - most of the h/w vendors in India have no you mean corporate assemblers? policy to refund license cost if you decide not to have Microsoft software on the machines. In US and most of the EU nations, you can

[PLUG] Government Sponsored Vendor lock

2010-07-26 Thread Mithun Shitole
Hi, Engineering, Diploma etc. admissions processes are online. The website for it is dte.org.in . Unfortunately Technical board doesn't seems to care about users who don't use IE. When you go to http://www.dte.org.in/FE2010/StaticPages/Default.aspx , this is what it says: Sorry, this