1996 - OSS Used In Aadhaar To Avoid Vendor lock-in: Balasubramanian EFY News Network (Sunday, November 20, 2011 2:34:20 PM) "The main reason to use OSS (open source software) in the Aadhaar project was not to save cost but to avoid vendor lock-in. And it was important that we have an ability to replace hardware, software or storage," Regunath Balasubramanian, principal architect of the UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) project said in his keynote titled Use of OSS in Aadhaar project – The World’s Largest Identity Platform at OSI Days 2011, Bengaluru. He further added, “We have also reduced licence cost for the world’s largest distributed deployment on thousands of CPU cores. We used OSS like Apache Hadoop, Hive, ZooKeeper, MySQL, Tomcat, Spring and Mule. So far, 60 million enrollments have been made in 18 months, and about 1 petabyte of data processed and archived.” The continued success of Aadhaar can promote the use of OSS in e-governance for large and complex systems, Balasubramanian added. - EFY Times

"The main reason to use OSS (open source software) in the Aadhaar project was not to save cost but to avoid vendor lock-in. And it was important that we have an ability to replace hardware, software or storage," Regunath Balasubramanian, principal architect of the UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) project said in his keynote titled Use of OSS in Aadhaar project – The World’s Largest Identity Platform at OSI Days 2011, Bengaluru. 

He further added, “We have also reduced licence cost for the world’s largest distributed deployment on thousands of CPU cores. We used OSS like Apache Hadoop, Hive, ZooKeeper, MySQL, Tomcat, Spring and Mule. So far, 60 million enrollments have been made in 18 months, and about 1 petabyte of data processed and archived.” The continued success of Aadhaar can promote the use of OSS in e-governance for large and complex systems, Balasubramanian added.  Click here to read the full story