[PLUG] [OT]: MSRTC Volvo online reservation

[sankarshan]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Roshan<d_rosh2001 at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I travel from Pune to Mumbai and back regularly. I don't reserve tickets usually, but I thought of doing so this time.
>
> I booked my tickets through the MSRTC Volvo online reservation center at Parihar Chowk, Aundh.
>
> To my surprise, I was in for a shock. They were using Mozilla Firefox as the browser and the application was made in PHP. Wow! I was initially assuming that the Firefox was used on Windows, but when I went close, I realized, it was Fedora Linux. Wow! Amazing

You should point press at mozilla.com for the Firefox bits.

> Superb! I'm so happy to see something like this!
>
> Have you had any such experiences in the past? Is MSRTC using Linux distros at all its booking centers?

They have been using Linux for a long time now.

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