Railways Shuts Down IIT Kanpur’s Rs 100 Crore Simran Project

[navpreetsingh459]

All I can say is that they have given a nice excuse and we can't say anything on this now..Lack of fund?
Where is all money going??
Can anyone tell me....

 

[avinandan012]

nah!! One hundred Crore scam coming up

 

[rohit32407]

Maybe lack of funds for some other purposes if you know what i mean

 

[Skud]

Our govt is like our people.
Some don't even know there are open-source-alternatives available for certain things!

Well if they knew then Linux would be very popular in India by now.

Problem is not the knowledge of Govt/people but the tender process for the sake of transparency. Vendors are not forthcoming with OSS/Linux solutions, may be due to lack knowledge/support on their part, or may be some other reasons. And OSS is not really the cure all of all problems, read this:-

One German city drops OpenOffice for MS Office: Why 'open source' still fails to impress


Last year, we had a policy of deploying Ubuntu Linux for at least 10% of new PCs purchased. This year that policy was scrapped as the HRMS software which is to be deployed is offered for Windows only by the vendor.