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Post online-CAT disaster, IIMs plan to switch to Foss

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| The leading IIMs, still smarting under the 
| recent fiasco over the online CAT debut, 
| are creating their own firewall against 
| similar disasters in future. After an 
| elaborate post-mortem of the recent 
| disaster, many IIM officials are exploring 
| the idea of using free and open source 
| software (Foss), rather than going in for 
| proprietary software, to prevent online 
| common admission test disasters in future.
| 
| “Online exams can be easily conducted using 
| Foss as it can not only reduce costs by 
| over 50%, but it is also safe against virus 
| and malware attacks,” said one of the IIM 
| officials. Infact, US-based Prometric — 
| which bagged the high-profile $40-million 
| contract to organise the online CAT using 
| proprietary software like Microsoft 
| Windows, along with NIIT — has pinned the 
| main reason for this year’s disaster on the 
| virus attacks. 
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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/internet/Post-online-CAT-disaster-IIMs-plan-to-switch-to-Foss-/articleshow/5338309.cms


Recent:

Microsoft cuts hiring in India

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| Venkatesan said the company hired a few hundred
| people last year in India, where it employs
| 5,300.
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/technologybrierdudleysblog/2010237917_microsoft_cuts_hiring_in_india.html
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