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Netcore bets on Linux<br>
<br>
Netcore plans to widen its client base through partnerships and by<br>
creating awareness about its Linux-based products. Vinita Gupta<br>
reports<br>
<br>
The biggest problem for an IT company nowadays is to differentiate<br>
itself from the crowd. One factor that can help is a focussed<br>
approach.<br>
<br>
"Emergic as a brand name represents three things—emerging technology,<br>
emerging in the market, and emerging in the SMB and enterprise<br>
segments"<br>
<br>
- Rajesh Jain<br>
MD & CEO<br>
Netcore<br>
<br>
Netcore has grown over the past six years in terms of customer<br>
acquisitions and spread its wings geographically. Its founder, MD and<br>
CEO, Rajesh Jain, is quite well-known for his online deals. IndiaWorld<br>
Communication, acquired by Satyam in November 1999, was a success when<br>
it was launched in 1994 with Web sites comprising khel.com, khoj.com,<br>
samachar.com and bawarchi.com.<br>
<br>
Emergic, the brand name for Netcore products, captivates what the<br>
company plans to achieve. Says Jain: "Emergic as a brand name<br>
represents three things—emerging technology, emerging in the market,<br>
and emerging in the SMB and enterprise segments." It has been the<br>
consistent focus of the company to introduce technology innovation<br>
that is affordable and effective.<br>
<br>
"Convincing an IT manager to adopt Linux is quite difficult<br>
as many people still have apprehensions about the platform"<br>
<br>
- Kalpit Jain<br>
VP, Technology<br>
Netcore<br>
<br>
>From e-mail to VPN, firewalls to bandwidth management, virus<br>
protection to spam filtering, Netcore's products are providing<br>
solutions to build the back-end infrastructure in large enterprises<br>
and small-and medium-sized businesses alike.<br>
<br>
The company also offers products such as <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">BlogStreet</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place>'s first<br>
portal on blogs providing analytics, search and directory services.<br>
Emergic CleanMail is a hosted anti-virus and anti-spam solution and<br>
messaging service that is used by organisations in the banking,<br>
logistics, finance and other industry verticals in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place> and other<br>
developing countries. Emergic FlexiMail is a mail hosting component<br>
where mail space can be offered to customers. The Emergic Mail Server,<br>
a new product, is a Linux-based messaging and security suite. It has a<br>
proxy server, mail server, firewall and anti-virus solution built into<br>
it.<br>
<br>
Adds Kalpit Jain, the company's VP for Technology, "We keep on<br>
building new features into our products."<br>
<br>
In Linux they trust<br>
<br>
Right from the IndiaWorld days, Netcore's focus has been to develop<br>
and market affordable software solutions. The company has been<br>
providing Linux-based solutions. Rajesh Jain's first endeavour,<br>
IndiaWorld, was an early user of Linux. Since then all the development<br>
of the company has been done on Linux.<br>
<br>
Netcore's reasons for using Linux-based solutions are its open,<br>
secure, reliable and stable standards-based nature. Since they have<br>
been using the Linux platform for some time now, Kalpit feels that<br>
their expertise leaves no scope for competition. Along with this he<br>
also believes that customers are much more open these days to adopting<br>
Linux-based solutions. "Many people are ready to transfer from the<br>
Windows platform to Linux," he states.<br>
Some of Netcore's clients<br>
Banking<br>
<br>
Financial Services<br>
<br>
Manufacturing<br>
<br>
Advertising & Media<br>
<br>
Logistics<br>
Bank of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place>
Kotak Securities VIP (Blow Plast Group) Grey India<br>
Lee & Muirhead<br>
IDBI Bank ShareKhan (SSKI) Supreme Industries FCB Ulka Jeena & Co<br>
Development Credit Bank NSDL Onida Lowe Lintas JM Baxi Group<br>
IndusInd Bank Sundaram Mutual Fund Emco <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place> Leo Burnett Patel Roadways<br>
<br>
Role of partners<br>
<br>
For a products-based company, having a strong sales team is crucial if<br>
it is to be a success. To start with, Netcore used to sell directly to<br>
its customers, but couldn't attain the desired growth rate. This made<br>
the company realise that to grow rapidly it needed partners. Today,<br>
the company's 20 partners pitch its products in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place> and eight<br>
international markets.<br>
<br>
The company also realised that partnering with companies which have a<br>
good customer base would help it broaden its own customer base.<br>
Another criterion in picking partners has been to choose companies<br>
that are into providing end-to-end solutions. Take for instance their<br>
tie-up with HCL. Netcore's two products, EmergicMail and CleanMail,<br>
are being bundled with HCL products. Says Kalpit, "We have a flexible<br>
relationship with HCL wherein they can offer these solutions to any<br>
customer based on the customer's requirements.<wbr>"<br>
<br>
Some of Netcore's other partners are Orient Techno-logies, Prolink<br>
Computers and Wysetek in Mumbai; Veeras Infotech in Chennai; Advance<br>
Ecom in <st1:City w:st="on">Coimbatore</st1:City>; and Microzol and Green
Vision in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Delhi</st1:City></st1:place>.
"We are<br>
not looking at too many partners but believe in having a few strategic<br>
partners," notes Kalpit.<br>
<br>
The strategy Netcore is adopting is to team up with an aggressive<br>
partner and then create awareness about its Linux-based products; this<br>
because Kalpit feels that people still have a mental block when it<br>
comes to Linux.<br>
<br>
Growing steadily<br>
<br>
Netcore has built a client base of over 500 companies, and its<br>
Linux-based messaging and security solutions are being used at 800<br>
locations in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place>
and abroad. In 2005 it added about 180 customers.<br>
It is focussing on SMBs and enterprises along with the government<br>
sector. As of today, Netcore is present in 11 countries including<br>
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Nepal</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Bangladesh</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Pakistan</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">South Africa</st1:country-region> and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Sri Lanka</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<br>
<br>
Kalpit says, "We have also grown in terms of people. Five years back<br>
we had 20-25 people, now we have around 80. Our offices are in<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Bangalore</st1:City></st1:place>,
Chennai and Pune."<br>
<br>
Its clients include the likes of IDBI Principal, Birla Global, ICICI<br>
Prudential, Raymond, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Bombay</st1:City></st1:place>
Dyeing, Unichem, Cipla, Mudra and<br>
Infomedia.<br>
<br>
Major achievements<br>
<br>
Kalpit prefers to count achievement in terms of customer satisfaction,<br>
delivering the right solution, and the problems solved. For instance,<br>
before Godrej & Boyce implemented Emergic CleanMail, it faced a lot of<br>
complaints related to spam and viruses. After the implementation their<br>
spam has reduced by 90 percent and this has helped in optimum usage of<br>
bandwidth.<br>
<br>
For Mangal Keshav Securities, scalability of their mailing solution<br>
was an issue. Says Kalpit, "In this case the issue was one of lack of<br>
scalability of the mailing solution. Also, the company needed an<br>
integrated LAN security and controlled browsing solution. We provided<br>
them the Emergic Mailserv, which today caters to around 25,000 e-mail<br>
accounts. Also, the firewall and proxy servers made them realise that<br>
Netcore could cater to all their messaging and security needs."<br>
<br>
Moving ahead<br>
<br>
The major challenge Netcore faces is to move in sync with the latest<br>
technology. As Kalpit says, "Convincing an IT manager to adopt Linux<br>
is quite difficult as many people still have apprehensions about the<br>
platform."<br>
<br>
Despite these problems, the company has an ambitious road-map ahead.<br>
Netcore is planning to come up with new products. The company is also<br>
looking at expanding its presence in the international market. For<br>
this they are in the process of strengthening their partner base.<br>
Along with these activities they are planning to open a 24x7 call<br>
centre in Mumbai; this centre will cater to their international<br>
customers.<br>
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Free and Open Source Software at the United Nations<br>
by David Boswell<br>
07/20/2006<br>
<br>
Advances in technology have revolutionized the way people live, learn<br>
and work, but these benefits have not spread around the world evenly.<br>
A digital divide exists between communities in their access to<br>
computers, the Internet, and other technologies. The United Nations is<br>
aware of the importance of including technology development as part of<br>
a larger effort to bridge this global digital divide. This article<br>
looks at how various United Nations agencies use free and open source<br>
software to meet the goal of putting technology at the service of<br>
people around the world.<br>
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The Millennium Development Goals<br>
<br>
The Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) are a set of eight targets to<br>
help end extreme poverty worldwide by 2015. The United Nations<br>
Information and Communication Technologies Task Force, created in<br>
March 2001, has worked to advance the development goals and targets of<br>
the UN, in particular those set by the Millennium Declaration. The<br>
Global <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Alliance</st1:City></st1:place>
for ICT and Development (GAID) group replaced UNICTTF,<br>
and now has the task of providing an open policy dialogue on the role<br>
of information and communication technologies in development.<br>
<br>
In their report The Role of Information and Communication Technologies<br>
in Global Development: Analyses and Policy Recommendations, the Task<br>
Force states that information and communication technologies will<br>
increasingly become one of the main enablers in the pursuit of poverty<br>
alleviation and wealth creation in developed and developing countries<br>
alike. It's easy to overlook the importance of technology in<br>
development, though. When people are starving and don't have access to<br>
clean water, does it matter if they have access to the Internet?<br>
Technology is not an end in itself in these situations, but it is a<br>
tool to achieve wider goals such as eradicating hunger and achieving<br>
universal primary education.<br>
<br>
To help raise awareness of the potential for free and open source<br>
software in this area, various UN organizations and nonprofits have<br>
created the FOSS: Policy and Development Implications (FOSS-PDI)<br>
initiative. Part of this initiative consists of a mailing list that<br>
discusses specific FOSS applications that address the different MDGs,<br>
information about how different countries are using open source<br>
software, and coordination for events being planned around the world.<br>
International Open Source Network<br>
<br>
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) created the<br>
International Open Source Network (IOSN) with the goal of helping<br>
developing countries in the Asia-Pacific Region achieve rapid and<br>
sustained economic and social development by using free and open<br>
source software. To achieve this goal, the IOSN acts as an open source<br>
information repository, maintains a database of FOSS programmers and<br>
experts, offers technical support and training, and provides research<br>
and development grants to programmers to work on localization efforts<br>
and local font development. IOSN also organizes and sponsors events to<br>
help advocate on behalf of FOSS and creates primers and guides for the<br>
use of FOSS in education, government, and other areas.<br>
<br>
IOSN hosts information about how different countries are getting<br>
involved in the open source community. The IOSN country report for Sri<br>
Lanka has information about how local developers quickly built the<br>
Sahana Disaster Management System to help coordinate the relief effort<br>
after the country was hit by a tsunami in 2004. Other IOSN <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sri Lanka</st1:place></st1:country-region><br>
contributions include several Sinhala-enabled Linux distributions and<br>
a Linux download accelerator. There are additional country reports for<br>
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Cambodia</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">China</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region>,
and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Malaysia</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<br>
<br>
Although the IOSN effort works only within the Asia-Pacific region,<br>
the UNDP is promoting the use of FOSS in other developing countries.<br>
For example, there is an initiative to support local e-government<br>
projects in South-Eastern Europe. The pilot project was started in<br>
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Bulgaria</st1:country-region>, and there are
plans to extend to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bosnia
and Herzegovina</st1:place></st1:country-region>,<br>
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Croatia</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Macedonia</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Serbia</st1:country-region>
and <st1:country-region w:st="on">Montenegro</st1:country-region>, and <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Romania</st1:place></st1:country-region>. A
(PDF) report<br>
on progress of the South-<st1:place w:st="on">Eastern Europe</st1:place>
e-government project shows<br>
that eight municipalities have migrated to FOSS, providing cost<br>
savings and increased effectiveness of services.<br>
<br>
The project is part of a larger UNDP Global Programme focused on<br>
developing national capacities by establishing a series of regional<br>
centers using FOSS. Currently, all coordination happens on a national<br>
and regional scale, because there is considerable opposition to using<br>
FOSS for development coming from parts of the developed world. Most of<br>
the traditional software industry has its base in the developed world;<br>
there is concern that promoting FOSS could hurt this industry. From<br>
the developing countries' perspective, however, FOSS is a way to<br>
introduce competition in order to lower costs and expand options. The<br>
different views of the role of software in development have hindered<br>
the UN's ability to create a single coherent strategy for FOSS to<br>
apply to all member states.<br>
Free & Open Source Software Portal<br>
<br>
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization<br>
(UNESCO) has also recently become interested in using free and open<br>
source software as part of its own programs. UNESCO's mission is to<br>
promote international collaboration through education, science, and<br>
culture. They have recognized that FOSS can play a key role in<br>
extending and disseminating human knowledge. In a review of UNESCO's<br>
activities in this area, Jean-Claude Dauphin, Computer Systems Analyst<br>
from the Information Society Division, states that "the software<br>
development models used by FOSS movements are also good examples of<br>
the power of sharing knowledge. These models encourage international<br>
solidarity, collaboration, and voluntary community work."<br>
<br>
UNESCO has created a Free & Open Source Software Portal that both<br>
promotes existing FOSS projects and hosts free and open source<br>
software created and released by the United Nations. The portal,<br>
started in November 2001, focuses on providing software that matches<br>
UNESCO's fields of competence: specifically, information processing<br>
applications and education tools. Future additions to the portal may<br>
add collaborative development tools that would allow for certain<br>
developers to host their own projects on the site.<br>
<br>
UNESCO has developed several projects in cooperation with libraries,<br>
universities, and programmers from many different countries. They<br>
include:<br>
<br>
* IDAMS (Internationally Developed Data Analysis and Management<br>
Software), a software package used for data mining, numerical<br>
information processing, and statistical analysis.<br>
* Open eNRICH, a tool that assists with the creation and sharing<br>
of locally relevant content and knowledge between communities.<br>
* CDS/ISIS (Computerized Documentation Service/Integrated Set of<br>
Information Systems), an information storage and retrieval system used<br>
by libraries around the world.<br>
* Greenstone, a suite of software for building and distributing<br>
digital library collections.<br>
* The Virtual Laboratory Toolkit, a suite of communication tools<br>
that allow people separated physically to coordinate on scientific<br>
projects.<br>
<br>
UNESCO's CDS/ISIS software is part of a (PDF) multilingual library in<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Amman</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Jordan</st1:country-region></st1:place>. Greenstone is in use in <st1:place
w:st="on">Africa</st1:place> as part of training<br>
local archivists and librarians to create and customize digital<br>
libraries. Free software is also part of UNESCO's radio-in-a-box<br>
prototype that features a self-contained laptop and transmitter that<br>
can quickly set up a broadcasting station in remote areas or in<br>
disaster areas with damaged infrastructure.<br>
One Laptop per Child<br>
<br>
In 2002, Secretary-General Kofi Annan issued a challenge to Silicon<br>
Valley to create the technologies that would enable the digital<br>
have-nots to enter the Information Age. He urged the information<br>
technology industry to "broaden its horizon and bring more of its<br>
remarkable dynamism and innovation to the developing world." He also<br>
announced that the General Assembly was planning to hold a World<br>
<st1:City w:st="on">Summit</st1:City> on the Information Society in 2003 in <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Geneva</st1:place></st1:City> and in 2005 in<br>
<st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Tunis</st1:place></st1:State>.<br>
<br>
Many organizations and groups have worked to answer this challenge.<br>
There have been several low-cost computing initiatives started in the<br>
last few years, including <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s
Simputer project, Intel's Community<br>
PC program, and AMD's 50x15 initiative. Perhaps the most well known of<br>
these efforts is the $100 laptop project. The One Laptop Per Child<br>
(OLPC) organization is a nonprofit created by Nicholas Negroponte, the<br>
former director of MIT's Media Lab. The OLPC's goal is to create a<br>
laptop to sell for $100 each to governments to give away at no cost to<br>
school-aged children.<br>
<br>
The $100 laptop, designed specifically for use in developing<br>
countries, should reach production in 2007. The laptops will consume<br>
very low amounts of energy and will come with a crank to provide<br>
manual power without the need to plug in to an existing power source.<br>
FOSS is a crucial component to the success of this initiative. The<br>
laptop will come installed with free and open source software in order<br>
to help reach the $100 price point and to allow for the creation of<br>
localized education applications and content.<br>
<br>
At the summit in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Tunis</st1:place></st1:State>
in 2005, Kofi Annan helped Negroponte<br>
demonstrate an OLPC prototype. The United Nation's involvement with<br>
the project took a step forward the next year at the 2006 World<br>
Economic Forum in Davos. At Davos, Kemal Dervis, head of the UNDP,<br>
signed a memorandum of understanding with the OLPC stating that the<br>
UNDP will work closely with OLPC and other UN agencies on the ground<br>
to assist national governments deploy the laptops to targeted public<br>
schools.<br>
Other UN Agencies<br>
<br>
Several other UN agencies also use FOSS to support their own missions.<br>
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has<br>
promoted the benefits of FOSS for trade through reports and<br>
conferences. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United<br>
Nations (FAO) has developed several of FOSS applications that provide<br>
spatial mapping functions, food production analysis tools, and animal<br>
disease data management.<br>
<br>
In April 2006, the United Nations University (UNU) hosted a conference<br>
about knowledge issues in open source and medicine that analyzed the<br>
role of FOSS and other collaborative models of knowledge production in<br>
economic development. The UNU's International Institute for Software<br>
Technology (IIST), has also recently launched the Global Desktop<br>
Project as part of an effort to increase the number of open source<br>
developers in <st1:place w:st="on">East Asia</st1:place>. The UNU is also
hosting UNeGov.net, a site<br>
that provides a forum for exchanging experiences, sharing technical<br>
information, and reaching consensus on the best practices in the field<br>
of electronic governance.<br>
Too Early to Tell<br>
<br>
The United Nation uses FOSS in various ways across several different<br>
agencies. Most of the initiatives have only begun recently, so it is<br>
too early to tell if the promise of information technology in general<br>
and of free and open source software in particular will be able to<br>
live up to their potential. There is no doubt that technological<br>
advances can improve people's lives around the world, but will<br>
software that is freely available and free to customize be able to<br>
play a part in bridging the gap between those that already have access<br>
to technology and those that do not?<br>
<br>
David Boswell has been involved in the Mozilla community for more than<br>
six years. He is also a coauthor of Creating Applications with Mozilla<br>
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