Status Of Open Source In India

February 12, 2009 by Krish Leave a Comment

Alolita Sharma has written an article on FossBazaar on the status of Open Source in India. After talking about various government initiatives and how companies are leveraging into open source for their internal needs, she offers an optimistic outlook for the growth of Open Source in India.

One of my peeves about India is the lack of active participation in the Open Source projects by geeks in India. It is in fact a disturbing trend that India is not in the forefront of Open Source movement in spite of being the leading supplier of world’s IT needs. Ms. Sharma explains how it can change in the future and offers an optimistic prediction on it.

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News Highlight: GlassFish As A LAMP Alternative For Enterprises

February 12, 2009 by Krish Leave a Comment

Sun Microsystems today announced GlassFish Portfolio as an enterprise level web application platform. Sun calls it most complete, cost-efficient open web application platform. It is a stack comprising of its highly scalable, high availability, GlassFish server, Apache Tomcat, Ruby, PHP and Liferay Portal. Similar to many other commercial open source stack, it is a pre-integrated, fully tested stack ready for deployment in production systems.The GlassFish Portfolio includes the GlassFish Application Server, along with the following new components: Read more of this post

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