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Linux
moves into the core
Everybody’s using it—whether it is IRCTC that
runs its vendor management, financial and HR management systems
on Red Hat Linux or IDBI Bank whose financials, HRMS (ERP)
and e-banking are powered by Tux at its data centre or even
BSNL Chennai’s billing apps, South Asia Petro’s
and Haldia Dock Complex’s ERP systems. Enterprises and
businesses are using Linux to run their core applications.
Nasscom
expects $30 billion of domestic IT business by 2008-09
Nasscom anticipates that the contribution of the IT sector
to the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) would grow
to 9 percent by 2008-09 fiscal from the existing level of
3 percent.
Qualcomm
opens R&D centre, acquires Spike Tech’s arm
Qualcomm has launched its research and development (R&D)
centre in Hyderabad as part of its plan to enhance its engineering
workforce worldwide.
"Novell's
legacy is our future"
Getting acquired by Novell lets SUSE Linux use the extra cash
to improve customer support, expand its product portfolio
and build on synergies between the two companies
Microsoft
to launch Hindi XP Starter edition
The company hopes to penetrate the local language market with
a low price, barebones starter pack
GRID
COMPUTING
A computer network connected together via the Internet, satellite
or optic fibre links can be used by various organisations
for sharing processing power converting the thousands of computers
with idle CPU power into a single virtual supercomputer.
India
Inside
The presence of large R&D departments of MNC majors such
as Texas Instruments, Intel, Motorola and Cadence coupled
with India's increasing prominence as an offshore destination
puts India in the right place at the right time for tapping
the embedded opportunity.
Proquest
markets utility mantra to SMBs
When application service providers (ASPs) first came on the
horizon, they failed to live up to their own hype and faced
huge problems with respect to service levels and scalability.
First
Extreme Blue internship programme in India
IBM Software Labs India recently organised its first Extreme
Blue internship programme in India. The Indian leg of the
programme was part of the Extreme Blue internship programme
launched by IBM in the United States in 1999.
Channel
Posts
Channel
Accent
Quotes
“Hardware costs will fall sharply within a decade to
the point where widespread computing,
with speech and handwriting, won't be limited by expensive
technology.”
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