Minutes for October 2004 GLUG Meet at IIT, Bombay

The October Mumbai GNU/Linux users group meet was held at KReSIT, IIT - Bombay. First speaker for this meet was Rajesh Jain of Indiaworld fame. He was followed by a talk on Resty by Mitul Limbani and Sandeep from Enterux Solutions.

Rajesh Jain is a technology visionary who started Indiaworld, one of the first portals in India before the Internet was a familar name in India. The sale of Indiaworld to Satyam in 1999 for Rs 500 crore sparked off the startup/venture capital boom in India. Post-Indiaworld, Jain has set up Netcore, an enterprise solutions company, focused on messaging, collaboration and security software, based on Free/Open Source Software. Netcore Solutions Rajesh Jain talked about his new affordable computing architecture based on thin clients to deliver localized content to Indian masses. A hard core blogger and a visonary, his talk was one of the best we had in the near past.

Next talk was on PHP - Resty by Sandeep. Resty is an inhouse solution developed by Enterux which builds upon the PHP architecture.