Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan inaugurated a new billing software,named ORUMA, based purely on Free Software developed by the KSEB(Kerala State Electricity Board) itself in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday.The KSEB will save Rs.9.5 crore on licence fee and software upgrading because of the shift to free software, the release added.
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17 weeks 8 hours 14 min 56 sec ago
Gr8 Step..
One the best steps taken by the Kerala Govt. I hope other follow the path soon :) not only they will save money but they will know more about a gr8 OS ..Now in Kerala students will learn Open Source and Gnu Os . and will get free from the clause of a crap OS known as Windows :|