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One of India's 28 states plans to distribute 100,000 Linux laptops to students there. It sounds like Tamil Nadu's volume purchasing agent decided to use Linux exclusively after being put off by Microsoft's bundling tactics for academic users. The laptops will be purchased in volume by Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu (ELCOT), which works as a volume purchaser for students in the state. Tamil Nadu is the Southern-most of India's 28 states, and home to the technology center of Chennai (formerly known as "Madras"). ELCOT says it will purchase more than 100,000 laptops this year, selling them to Indian students for about $800, a considerable mark-down compared to retail value, it says.
They make a sharpened point that "ELCOT now says it recommends only Linux", but then they turn around and say "Once we receive Microsoft's revised offer which is acceptable to ELCOT, we would get back to you with our offer for Microsoft products."
Makes it look like their interested in having their way with Microsoft, and not so much in Linux.
Now if Ford Motor Company really goes into bankruptcy they just might might install all those Linux boxes they threatened MS to receive the price concession they wanted. Perhaps if their vision had looked beyond a mere price reduction their business would not be in such imminent danger of collapse.
It might not equal the numbers mentioned for India, but it would be significant.
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Makes it look like their interested in having their way with Microsoft, and not so much in Linux.