Articles by Author -- Alolita Sharma

Technetra presented on Linux based accessibility tools such as Emacspeak and other speech recognition open source software which could be used by vision-impaired individuals in India for education and on-the-job.

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A decade ago, the Beowulf project revolutionized High Performance Computing (HPC). At that time, the strategy of every high performance computing vendor was to pump up and protect the astronomical prices charged for each gain in perceived performance. Fortunately, Moore’s law works in just the opposite way: greater performance means lower cost. This paradox has everything to do with manufacturers like Intel and AMD being able to make denser and better circuits at cheaper and cheaper costs. It is this commoditization of hardware that drives HPC today.

This seminar was part of PHDCCI’s initiative to create Linux awareness in the Indian business community where a group of experts including Technetra presented on the various facets of OSS and Linux.

Linux and open source software (OSS) are widely used for internal as well as high-visibility external projects at both NASA and ESA. While the future is bright for open technologies at both space agencies, procurement rules and licensing considerations may need to be changed to better support the advantages of Linux and OSS.

Tux is hoisting anchor and setting sail for the new world of digital movie making. Linux is at the helm of new animated adventures like Dreamworks Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas and jaw-dropping special effects in many other films.

Even as platinum players like IBM, HP, Sun, Red Hat, Intel, CA and Oracle expand the market for this jewel of the free software movement, the other character of Linux and open source peeks now and then from behind the shiny counters, logos, and equipment. Linux is still a grassroots, bottom-up effort.

Aruna Sundarajan is a senior IAS bureaucrat and State Secretary for Information Technology for Kerala. She has over two decades of professional experience in government. She has held key administrative positions both in the Center and the State and has been Director (Industries) and Secretary (Industries) prior to taking over as the Secretary in the Department of IT in the Government of Kerala, which she has held for the last three years. Kerala. In an interview with Alolita Sharma, she talked about open source software and the role of the government in promoting it.

New technologies push Linux into the enterprise as the community strives to preserve the basics.

In this article, the author tracks the progress of adoption of open source software across the world. In search of technologies best suited for their countries, governments around the world are looking into Linux and open source software technologies.