As a final nail to the coffin, Ganaka Parishath decided to offer Nudi for free and this almost brought the Kannada software development industry to a halt. This was because if all Kannada software vendors produced the same standardised software, allowing their customers to have a choice to choose among the software vendors and hence an impact on existing business. Due to economic reasons, private software vendors put pressure on the Government to revoke the decision of standardisation.
There were some minor database-related issues which were solved by using a new improved code that was released by CDAC.2 Nudi was later converted into an advanced software by the Parishath and in 2002, the Government accepted it as an official software. This was selected as the benchmark and all private software vendors were advised to adhered to the standards set by Nudi. The conference was influential in making the Government understand the usefulness and the need of standardising Kannada for computing.Ī software called Nudi was developed by Ganaka Parishath using a common code and also providing the ability to enter Kananda characters in different fonts. Members of the bank made a presentation to the delegates on the advantages of using Kannada for its day-to-day computer transactions. The people invited to this conference included members of the Adivesha Co-operative Bank in Shimoga who had computerised all the bank's transactions in Kannada by using a software called as Gistcard which was developed by CDAC.
A group of researchers got together and started to discuss about these problems and brought them to the notice of the Government.2 In order to address these issues, a conference known as Kannada and computers was convened by the Government. Some other issues that needed attention was the standardisation of a keyboard for entering Kannada characters and also to see how Kannada can be used in other software apart from the then existing desktop publishing applications.
A Kannada document written and saved using one application could not be opened in the other.
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