“In the last eight months, the islands of Andaman and Nicobar
have witnessed tremendous development in the IT sector, especially
in the case of open source and Linux. Those I call the ‘IT people
of Andaman’ have been reluctant to implement and explore the
benefits of open source software in the past. Some still are.“But the growing popularity of Linux within India is amazing.
Many of the top multi-national corporations (MNCs) with projects in
Andaman are using Linux as their major platform. These choices have
shifted the minds of IT people here from Windows-based software to
Linux-based software–but not much as I might have expected…”
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