Today Economic Times reported about the benefits of FOSS as analyzed by a study according to the Professor Rahul De of IIM Bangaloare. That’s good, superb we already knew about the benefits of FOSS, but yes now we have a study backed up by one of the geniuses of the country. However isn’t it that it has already been there? The LIC using it, or the Govt. of Kerala leveraging the benefits FOSS Technologies. Same goes with corporates, they have always preferred Sendmail over Microsoft Exchange, and Linux over Windows and more and more FOSS when it comes to Server technologies. Organizations have been using OpenOffice.ORG from past so many years to save upon their costs.

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WordPress has become the defacto industry standard! And since blogs have been catching up a lot with people, its no doubt corporates are also into it. Now Hindustan Times have come out with their writers Blog on the internet. The base site of HT was on jsp 2 years back, but now they have shifted to a complete new ASP.NET Platform. But as the web gives you flexibility to combine across various platforms, they are now using WordPress for their blogs. Have a visit if you have interest.