Hughes Software Systems offers Free Linux Support
Mar 26th, 07:40:36 Jay Vikram Bakshi writes:
Hughes
Software Systems (HSS), India's #1
communications software company, has decided to offer
online support to the Linux user community in India and
abroad.
HSS will provide free support to Linux users over
electronic mail (email) and phone, seven days a week, 24
hours a day through its '7X24 Free Support
Program'. Dedicated telesupport will be
available at +91-124-346666, extn.2929 at its Gurgaon
facility. Email support will be provided through
penguins@hssworld.com '7X24' (Seven cross twenty
four), seven days a week, twenty four hours a day, is an
HSS support philosophy that has now been extended to the
Free Support Program for Linux.
Launching the '7X24 Free Support Program', Mr Vinod Sood,
Assistant Vice President, Head of Engineering, HSS, said,
"We have decided to offer this free service in view
of the tremendous interest generated among users in India
and abroad who have started working with this open source
operating system." Currently, there are an estimated
50 million users worldwide. The Indian user community is
also growing very rapidly.
HSS, a subsidiary of USD 1.2 billion Hughes Network
Systems (HNS) based in Maryland, USA, has 3000 person
years of cumulative experience on Linux and Linux-based
software development and applications. Since its
inception in 1992, HSS has used Linux as the development
platform of choice. An HSS analysis of competing
operating systems, at that point of time, had rated the
open source operating system the highest on parameters of
flexibility, richness of features and robustness.
"HSS has a large base of more than 600 professionals
who have unmatched expertise on Linux. Over the last six
years we have used and supported Linux informally within
the IT developer community. With the emerging interest of
Small Office Home Office users in this open source
operating system, we have decided to extend our online
support to Linux users across industry," said Vinod
Sood.
The benefits of Linux as a tool for software development
and as an operating system of choice emerges out of its
rich feature set and ease in application development. The
system provides an open source code and free use of third
party tools developed by users and developers across the
globe. All this helps in speeding up software development
schedules and allows users easy portability on to their
choice of operating system.
Hughes Software Systems Ltd.
Hughes Software Systems specializes in the development of
software solutions, products and services for data
communications, satellite communications,
telecommunications and Internet applications. HSS'
products and services for the advanced telecommunications
market include Telecom Protocol Stacks (V5.2, VB5, SS#7,
INAP), Mediation Device Systems, Advanced Intelligent
Networks (AIN), and web applications like 2ndlook,
Bazarwatch, NetPay.
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