[Fsf-friends] IBM in pact with C-DAT, IIT Mumbai

Kanti Jadia j_kanti@rediffmail.com
Sun Oct 10 05:34:59 IST 2004


hi,

NCST is managing the .in domain , so it will/has to be around.
http://domain.ncst.ernet.in/

my two cents

Kanti  


On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 Ramanraj K wrote :
>
>
> > Are you really sure? CDAC stands for the Centre for Development of
> > Advanced Computing. I wonder what the hyphen is doing in C-DAC. If
> > needless hyphens are ok, I prefer to call it C-DA-C :) The CDAC website
> > seems to be ncst.ernet.in. So, the ghost of NCST: National Centre for
> > Software Technology is still around.
> >
>
>Sivasankar wrote:
><quote>
>   On acronyms: CDAC was originally called C-DACT from 1986-1988, before
>getting a name change to CDAC, when 18 months of their original time-bound
>mission had elapsed without anything concrete having been accomplished.
>
>   NCST is the organization orginally called NCSDCT, and they're the
>grand-daddies of Unix adoption in India. In short, it's good to have
>NCST involved, but of course, it's even better to just give the money
>to the LUGs :-). We can do a better job popularizing FLOSS.
>
></quote>
>I whole heartedly agree with Sivasankar :)
>
>
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