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"The most unfortunate thing is that India still seems to believe in
proprietary solutions.
Further spread of IT which is influencing the
daily life of individuals would have a devastating effect on the lives
of society due to any small shift in the business practice involving
these proprietory solutions.
It is precisely for these reasons open
source software need to be built which would be cost effective for the
entire society.
In India, Open source code software will have to come
and stay in a big way for the benefit of our billion people."
-- Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, President of India
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W32.Bugbear.B@mm
Looks like the newest virus on the block loves exclusivity. Or it could be a ghost of one of the sunk accounting firms, floating around to be seek revenge:-).
This virus chooses to target global banks and financial institutions only. And it's the first time that a worm is exclusively targeting a particular industry.
The virus is malicious in nature and polymorphic - meaning it changes form to foil simple anti-virus signature fingerprinting techniques to detect it.
It spreads by email and it installs a 'back door' to grant unauthorised access to the institution, which could enable a hacker to access a bank account of the user of an infected computer.
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KMG Infotech, a software services firm, mandated Yukthi Systems to implement a cost-effective VPN solution to meet their connectivity needs.
Yukthi set up two VPN tunnels from Bangalore - one linking their US head office and other, a customer site in the US. The connectivity structure comprises Linux at one endpoint and the other, a NetScreen VPN device.
The network allows users transparent access to LANs on the other side. There are no access restrictions due to licensing issues either.
The entire solution relied on Open source and avoided proprietary branded solutions. This approach helped KMG Infotech to save over Rs. 2 lakhs.
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Dear [[-FullName-]],
Welcome to the latest issue of Yukthi Infoswitch, our bi-monthly take on IT infrastructure trends.
Themed on the value of Open source technologies, this issue takes you through interesting insights of how Open source is being given importance by IT bigwigs. More so in India, where like everything else, a business decision hinges on the short and long term cost implications.
In this context, the HBR article 'Why IT doesn't matter anymore' gives a dramatically different perspective about the relevance of Information technology as a strategic advantage.
I hope you find the newsletter interesting. If you would like to comment, please get in touch.
Regards - Ramakant Jawalkar
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Announcement: Mr. Vijaya Raghavan has joined the board of Yukthi Systems as a non-executive Director. He has 17 years of experience in the IT Industry as project leader and applications manager. He has worked with Texas Instruments Inc., IBM Corp., i2 Corp. and Lisle Technology Partners. Vijay is an M. Tech. in Interated Circuits and Systems from IIT Kharagpur.
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Why IT doesn't matter anymore |
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New Rules for IT Management
Harvard Business Review's May issue carried a provocative article Why IT doesn't matter anymore suggesting that IT is just another commodity (electricity, railways, IC engines..) and no longer conveys competitive advantage. This view from a premier publication has created quite a ruckus. A studied criticism from Fortune, and views of CEOs like Micheal Dell on the HBR piece.
Three guidelines for the future, as suggested by the article.
Spend less: Studies show that the companies with the biggest IT investments rarely post the best financial results. As the commoditization of ITcontinues, the penalties for wasteful spending will only grow larger.
Follow, don't lead: Moore's Law guarantees that the longer you wait to make an IT purchase, the more you'll get for your money. And waiting will decrease your risk of buying something technologically flawed or doomed to rapid obsolescence. Only in some cases, being on the cutting edge makes sense.
Focus on vulnerabilities, not opportunities: It's unusual for a company to gain a competitive advantage through the distinctive use of a mature infrastructural technology, but even a brief disruption in the availability of the technology can be devastating.
They need to prepare themselves for technical glitches, outages, and security breaches, shifting their attention from opportunities to vulnerabilities
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Tracing the origins of the Open source movement
The Open source movement took shape way back in the 60s and 70s, thanks to the "hacker" culture of U.S. computer science laboratories (Stanford, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, and MIT). Richard Stallman, who started his career at MITs AI Lab in 1971, is largely credited with promoting this movement which has now gained substantial traction. Makes for an interesting read.
Also, read the comprehensive paper on Open source, how it scores over proprietary OSs. Issues like reliability, performance, scalability, security, TOC are examined in full detail.
Linux: Confounding the skeptics
Linux attracted disdainful skepticism from decision makers in its initial days. They were not sure if the Open source OS would be able to equal the performance of the proprietary OSs, or if it was just stuff to keep geeks busy or, if one really could develop enterprise solutions for it.
But as years went by, Linux has established a commanding presence in the enterprise sector. The dotcom bust and the associated cuts in corporate IT budgets forced the CIOs to take a serious look at the free upstart. From Network Magazine
But wait, not everyone glows about Linux as an elixir for myriad business problems. Read this contrarian view "The Limitations Of Linux" from Forbes.
Open Source Comes to Wireless: This is Big
Motorola is offering a suite of software development tools and a free hosting platform for its iDEN developer support program.
The program provides virtually everything developers need to build applications and get them to market, including tools, technical support, marketing, distribution, e-commerce backend processing and end user support. Hopefully, the open-source community can shock the wireless web out of the stagnation it currently faces.
From Wireless Developer Network
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Security and Open source software: An analysis
As some say, it's almost impossible to achieve security nirvana, a state where all aspects of software security are taken care of. This article analyses how Open source can be better than proprietary software where security is concerned.
From ZDNet
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