Indian tech city chooses Microsoft

MSNBC ^ | 12/20/04 | AP

[KwasiOwusu]

BANGALORE, India - Microsoft Corp. won a battle against open source software supporters in India's technology hub of Bangalore, with local authorities choosing its software for networking the state's utilities and services.

An e-governance project for the 55 million people of Karnataka state, of which Bangalore is the capital, will begin April 2005 and will be powered by Microsoft's proprietary software, an official said Monday

[KwasiOwusu]

Cool.

Even in dirt poor India, the Microsoft software juggernaut continues.

[Politicalities]

Cool, I hope this helps our stock price tomorrow.

[TXnMA]

Microsoft's Malicious Marketing strikes again...

[TWohlford]

I don't believe a word of M$'s press releases. Dollars to donuts there will continue to be UNIX, Linux, Netware, etc in that system.

And there's absolutely nothing in there about what will happen the day after tomorrow.

Worse yet, M$ sold the software at 45% of the "market price" which, in India, is doubtless lower than in North America.

This might go a ways to compensate for the loss of nearby (to Redmond) Seattle, who continues to chose Novell's software for servers and email.

[highimpact]

Microsoft products are garbage. Their applications process millions of lines of useless code for functions that nobody uses. It's overpriced and incredibly cumbersome (i.e. slow.) MS hasn't put out a stable and fast OS since DOS. I haven't had a computer crash since I went to open source. In the world of computing, MS is a lumbering dinosaur.

[Swordmaker]

This will make it easier for Microsoft to outsource their tech support even more...

[KwasiOwusu]

"I don't believe a word of M$'s press releases"

You don't? Oh no!

In case you are blind as well as psychotic, read this from the AP release again, will you?

""We will initially put 24 citizen services online and more later," said Rajiv Chawla, secretary of Karnataka's electronic governance department."

That is from the Karnataka State's electronic governance department.
Now then, is that a bit better , boy?

[KwasiOwusu]

"Microsoft's Malicious Marketing strikes again..."

Isn't it great when the open source nuts gnash their teeth in frustration and pain as Microsoft continues to go from strength to strength?
Don't you just love it when that happens? :)

BTW, its called capitalism and free enterprise, in case you are still confused, something that FREEP is all about.
You can take your commie open source crap to North Korea. Chairman Kim will be most pleased. :)

[KwasiOwusu]

"Microsoft products are garbage"

Correction:

"Open source slopware is garbage"

Now , that's much , much better. :)

[KwasiOwusu]

"This might go a ways to compensate for the loss of nearby (to Redmond) Seattle, who continues to chose Novell's software for servers and email."

Ummm..what is the population of the entire Washington State again? Answer : 6 million.
Now we are talking about Seattle here, just one town in Washington state, right?

Compare that to this contract Micrsooft just won in India..its for a massive.. count it.. 55 million people..

Kinda makes your lil Seattle contract look like well peanuts doesn't it? :)

[KwasiOwusu]

"Cool, I hope this helps our stock price tomorrow"

Every little bit helps.
It all adds up to even bigger sales and profit figures for Microsoft.

[ShadowAce]

It all adds up to even bigger sales and profit figures for Microsoft.

Somehow I seriously doubt this does anything at all to help offset the massive fine in Europe against MS.

[N3WBI3]

All MS has to do is discount their already (in India) cheap software 45% and it can compete with OSS in a price performance measure... I would not be surprised if some palms were greased..

[N3WBI3]

Kinda makes your lil Seattle contract look like well peanuts doesn't it? :)

Except in Seattle they would be getting more than 3 grand per MS Server 2003, and in Banglore they are proba bly getting 300..