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Red Hat Signs MOU with Government of Kerala

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| Red Hat will train the technical staff of various government
| organizations to help them develop and maintain open source
| applications. Red Hat will also train school teachers in
| Kerala on Linux desktop skills under a "Train-the-Trainer" program.
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India can live without Microsoft

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| More than 6,500 Linux systems have already been packed off to
| villages and another 6,100 Acer desktop systems with Suse on
| their way.
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| Umashankar said that more than 20,000 desktop systems will be
| installed in schools that will only run on Suse. All ELCOT
| servers will run on Redhat. ELCOT expects to train 30,000
| government officials in Linux and Open Office too.
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AP to forge ties with MIT for open source software

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| The Andhra Pradesh government is forging ties with the Massachusetts
| Institute of Technology (MIT), US, for collaboration in the areas of
| e-governance, data standards and service-oriented architecture.
| "MIT will provide funding and technological assistance for
| developing and promoting different software components
| including an open source platform," said state IT secretary
| K Ratnaprabha.
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Tamil Nadu (India) Shutting the Door On Microsoft

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| "The managing director of the IT procurement, consulting, and training
| agency for the Tamil Nadu government describes the reasons why he has
| chosen OSS, and also how he dealt with Microsoft executives."
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Kerala On Linux Express Highway

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| The Linux slip-road that the state took is slowly becoming an
| express highway.
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| If we twist Napoleon's quote on China a bit, we can safely say, "Linux is a
| sleeping giant, let it sleep, because when Linux moves the world moves!"
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