There is some good news from here wrt Open Source.
“The Indian state of Tamil Nadu has finalized a tender for 40,000 Lenovo desktops which can be installed with both Novell’s Suse Linux and Microsoft’s Windows XP Starter Edition”
http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/software/stories/172654.html
Note: TamilNadu is where IIT Madras is located. Tamil Nadu is also the place where vtiger is located