Indian Agency to Deploy Linux in Schools

"The Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT) is deploying Suse Linux Enterprise across 30,000 desktops and 1,880 servers in schools in southern India.

"ELCOT is a government-owned agency that provides IT services to Tamil Nadu, a state in southern India. It has already migrated its own IT infrastructure from Microsoft's Windows operating system to Suse Linux Enterprise Server and Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop, Novell said Tuesday..."

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