By IANS,
Chennai : The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu Limited (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.