C-DAC ties up with Electronic Corporation of Tamil Nadu

Monday, 15 September 2008, 16:55 IST
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Chennai: The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT) to undertake research in the areas including open source software and e-governance. The MoU was exchanged here Friday between M.R. Rajagopalan, director of C-DAC, Chennai and Santosh Babu, managing director, ELCOT in the presence of union Minister for Communications and Information Technology A. Raja. The alliance is for deploying C-DAC developed Bharat Operating System Solutions (BOSS) Linux across the state in all government departments. It is for their productivity application and e-governance applications, large-scale promotional activities in the areas of open source software, e-governance and setting up of BOSS Linux support centre within ELCOT campus.
Source: IANS