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[Frederick Noronha (FN)]

	BUSINESSES are also starting to use [GNU]Linux
	more freely due to the tremendous savings they can
	make. Computers still cost Rs 25,000 or so -- and
	almost a similar amount goes into the software.
	When a business needs to buy a lot of computers,
	that amounts to staggering costs.
		-- Mala Bhargava, BusinessWorld (India)
		   March 3, 2003

GUESS WHICH Indian company has bagged the biggest export
order in the telecom sector? Midas Communications, a
seven-year-old R&D company based in Chennai, focussing on
rural telephony, has just picked up a $12-million
(around Rs 60 crore) order from Egypt. It will install
200,000 telephone lines based on the corDect wireless in
local loop (WLL) technology that it has developed in
partnership with the Tenet grouup, spearheaded by IIT-
Chennai professor Ashok Jhunjhunwala. -- M Anand in
BusinessWorld (India) March 10, 2003. (Prof Jhunjhunwala
has long focussed his attention around GNU/Linux)

	WITH COMPANIES such as HP, Microsoft, Red Hat,
	NIIT and Reliance putting serious money into
	it, the vernacular computing market in India
	looks set to bloom in 2003.... The Simputer
	has a GNU/Linux embedded system with local
	language support... Red Hat will launch a 
	Hindi-enabled 9.1 version (Linux) in the next
	six months.... NCST IndiX Project will enable
	Hindi and other Indian languages on GNU/Linux
	systems. IndLinux (offers) support for Hindi 
	on Gnome. Swathanthra Malayala Computing
	Project (offers) support for Malayalam on
	Gnome. IIT Madras (is working on) support for
	Tamil on GNU/Linux system. --  Report by
	Priya Srinivasan, spanning four pages,
	Business Today (India), March 16, 2003.

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