7 Jul 2007 22:17
[GNU/LinuxInIndia] Sudev Barar... a familiar face for FOSS.in regulars
Frederick Noronha =?UTF-8?Q?_[=E0=A5=9E=E0=A4=B0?= ेदरिक नोर =?UTF-8?Q?=E0=A5=8B=E0=A4=A8=E0=A4=AF=E0=A4=BE]?= <fred@...>
2007-07-07 20:17:52 GMT
2007-07-07 20:17:52 GMT
http://www.downtoearth.org.in/interview1.asp?foldername=20070615&filename=news&sec_id=14&sid=29 Sudev Barar on open-source software Nuchem is a company in Delhi that develops and sells water/effluent treatment technologies, chemicals and laminated panels. Sudev Barar, its owner, has adopted a Linux-based open-source computing environment. He tells Sopan Joshi why it makes sense for industry to adopt open-source software On adoption of computers I joined the family business in the early 1980s, when the personal computer (pc) revolution had begun. I remember buying a product called pc Junior, with 64 kilobytes of memory and two floppy drives, for Rs 80,000 in 1985. We found the computer very useful for accounting jobs. Billing accuracy was an attraction. On learning to handle computers I had no formal training. But as a manager who had expections from operations, I was interested in what computers offered. I remember the joy of seeing the ibm xt, perhaps the first with an internal hard disk drive of 10 megabytes— felt like heaven after using so many floppies. On software requirements In the early 1980s, the concept of licensed software just wasn't there. pc dos could be freely copied. In 1992, we set up a new plant and started using Oracle software—that's when we came to terms with(Continue reading)
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