Tuesday, March 17, 2009

So, what does it take to switch to Open Source?

If you're the Prime Minister of India, it seems that a massive virus-caused would do it:

The office of the Indian Prime Minister has reportedly ditched Microsoft's Outlook for open-source email following a computer virus that caused a massive breakdown in communications.

The PMO has dumped Outlook Express for SquirrelMail, it has emerged, following an outage that saw emails go missing and unanswered during a three-month period last year.

Also unanswered is why it took 3 months for someone to notice that the PM wasn't getting any email. I guess he must be more of a Facebook sort of guy.

1 comment:

Eagle said...

squirrelmail is a webmail system that still requires a MTA somewhere.

If this guy dropped Outlook for squirrelmail, then he decided to kill his client-based email program for a web-based email handler.