Microsoft to improve efficiency of Indian Railways

[iMav]

Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS), the umbrella organization for all computer activities on Indian Railways, along with Microsoft, has come out with a unique system for effectively monitoring the movement of trains operated by the Indian Railways.

Built on Windows Vista, the Control Office application (COA) will ensure that the 17 million passengers who travel by the Indian Railways every day and users of its freight services will get real time information on the exact location and arrival and departure times of all trains on their phones. “We have completed the integration of COA with our interactive voice response system and our website in the 26 control rooms it has been deployed so far,” said the spokesperson of CRIS.

Source: WinVistaClub via Time Of India

[dreamcatcher]

Yea..more system crashes and more train delays..great news..Indian railways probably running on 512 mb ddr.. lol

[casanova]

Great. Lage raho

[mrbgupta]

Originally Posted by dreamcatcher

.Indian railways probably running on 512 mb ddr.. lol

For people like you railways means ticket counter! lol.

[kumarmohit]

Arey ham keh raha hoon Ballmer bhaiya se ham baat kiya hun. Uu bilkul hamare jaise hai! tabhi na ham ee sab kiya hai!

-- Laloo Bhaiya!

[FilledVoid]

I would love to see these features rolled out regardless of what the platform uses.

[confused!!]

^+1

[chesss]

The application, developed with an investment of Rs 83 crore,

What the phuck??
83 Crores for an application?? WOuld it include deployment/hardware costs or only development of software

[slugger]

well India wudnt b the first country whose railway is adopting Win for its operation

it is being used in faar more critical places [consequences unknown]

Top Ten Worst Uses for Windows

[FilledVoid]

What the phuck??
83 Crores for an application?? WOuld it include deployment/hardware costs or only development of software

Most companies quote software Applications charges from Analysis all the way too Implementation and Maintenance.

[narangz]

Originally Posted by FilledVoid

Most companies quote software Applications charges from Analysis all the way too Implementation and Maintenance.

Exactly. Even if they used FOSS system the analysis, implementation & maintainance costs are quoted.

[Faun]

lol...this is cracking me up

[narangz]

^^ Dude tell Laloo about the cracks in the tracks

[iMav]

I knew you would post that

[din]

On a second thought, no, I think I should not break my 'resolution'

Deleted the post.

[narangz]

Originally Posted by iMav

I knew you would post that

Who? Me? What? How?

Err... Were you talking about Din uncle? He might have posted that LCD pic?

[iMav]

Not you, din had posted link to his post where he caught a LCD at the railway station suffering from a BSoD He deleted his post now

[din]

@narangz

That was meant for me. You missed a post that I deleted so fast. Thought that may lead to another war, so deleted it.

[narangz]

Originally Posted by iMav

Not you, din had posted link to his post where he caught a LCD at the railway station suffering from a BSoD He deleted his post now

LOL! I edited my post as it came to my mind. Check out my post again

[din]

Offtopic :

LOL

You guys are faster than me

[jal_desai]

Tell me when they are starting this service.... From tht day onwards i will go by road... even though the petrols are on the high... but i cannot risk my life yaar..

[amitava82]

^^ in that sense, your life is already in risk.. Every minute, every second. Unfortunately you know nothing about it..

[NIGHTMARE]

lalu ji ko batao bhai

[gary4gar]

Originally Posted by jal_desai

Tell me when they are starting this service.... From tht day onwards i will go by road... even though the petrols are on the high... but i cannot risk my life yaar..

Its not so unsafe, atleast windows better than a overworked drunk train driver

[NucleusKore]

Originally Posted by amitava82

^^ in that sense, your life is already in risk.. Every minute, every second. Unfortunately you know nothing about it..

Sounds like The Matrix

Was this the picture you wanted to share Din :-P



CONTROL ROOM BOOM

[iNFiNiTE]

"Real time info abt the arrival of trains", sounds excellent to me. Hope no more long waits at the stations.
Another step in the modernisation of Indian Railways.

[x3060]

whatever, lets hope for the best...i don't want to disturb the peaceful life prevaling in this thread now .

[lywyre]

Yeah, guess the Railways have to upgrade their signals as well which includes a Blue one (signifying BSoD)

[gxsaurav]

something is burning in Anti-MS camp it seems. The system is made in WPF & due to its per pixel refresh approach it is being used. We talked about it on May 10 here in MS office

[goobimama]

Originally Posted by din

Offtopic :

LOL

You guys are faster than me

Of course the great green mod can see everything!

On topic, nice to see our Railways getting a facelift. I hope they do pay up the $100/year and put out an iPhone app for Goobi to use while travelling for those Mumbai meets.