[osol-mktg] Spreading the word

[Bharath Ravi Kumar]

Hi,
      I just wanted to mention a new phenomenon in tech marketing that i came across in India: A number of companies have resorted to giving away software (with support) to premier institutions in the country absolutely free. In addition, they also take time to impart training (through developers located in the vicinity of the institutions) in the relevant concepts involved. For instance, a University that governs colleges around Bangalore mandates that the Linux environment be used to carry out minor projects in related to Operating Systems in general & Unix in particular. Linux is advocated primarily because it's free. Would it not be a good idea to publicize OS and impress upon the Univs the importance of OS to the area of  Operating Systems? So, Operating Systems courses could involve Solaris as a case study & use OS (which is free) in their projects. That'd help get word around even better, i thought (and you have students with the knowledge of Solaris graduating out). Like I mentioned earlier, this is just an observation I made. Comments welcome.
Regards,
Bharath
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