[ILUG-BOM] Pitching Linux to corporates?

[Dinesh Joshi]

Hi list,

A recent experience has left me horrified. I was recently at an Airtel 
relationship center. Their PoS terminal for paying bills via 
cash/cheques was running windoze ( Some NT variant ). To my horror the 
system constantly kept on popping up a message - "You have been 
infected by ...blah blah blah....". This message was of some vague 
antivirus but not the well known McAffee or Norton. If their PoS 
running windoze can get infected with a virus then what about the data 
of countless customers inside that terminal? Afterall it is connected 
to the internet and anybody can easily hijack it! :O

[rant]
I am not an Airtel customer anymore but I really wish they continue 
using Windoze and go out of business soon... :/ May they crash and burn 
in hell until eternity! >:(
[/rant]

Ahem...shouldn't somebody bring this to the notice of the media? I mean 
I can imagine the amount of negative publicity it can bring to M$ ( and 
not to mention Airtel hahahahaa... ). Weren't their website so insecure 
that anybody could easily get the itemized bills of any arbitrary 
customer?

So this got me thinking...with the recent "awareness" of better security 
in the digital domain shouldn't these corporates use Linux based 
solutions which are inherently more secure AND stable? What is stopping 
the adoption of Linux??

-- 
Dinesh A. Joshi