FOSS in Tamil Nadu
I remember reading about some deployment of SUSE Linux that I think Nat or Miguel had talked about a few months back. The gist of what they were saying was that there were some big deployments coming, but they couldn't be announced yet. Well, maybe this was one of those, and now it's got to the stage that it can be announced.
Will be interesting to see what effect this has on the IT landscape if it goes through. One successful large-scale deployment like this would make other organizations/governments/educational institutions sit up and take notice. I'm pretty sure that if it's done well once, the floodgates will open. What works to the advantage of FOSS is that something like this would make such big news if it is a success that it would be known about everywhere (in the IT industry). This means that even though there may be other projects that are quite happy sticking with MS, and even if a project like this is, in global terms of usage, not even a small blip, it would have an impact much larger than it's statistical importance because it represents the possibility that any large organization could do this.
