The key to the Ubuntu unicorn Event: collusion between officials and businessmen

Go to the homepage of the Canonical official website. There are three main products: Enterprise Service, engineering service and customer service. According to the definition of the International Standard Organization (ISO), Service is a product form. It can be concluded that Canonical is a new service provider (SP), and the Ubuntu operating system is only one & ldquo; trump card & rdquo; in its hands. On September 16, March 21, Canonical went to its official website & ldquo; NewsandEvents & rdquo

Go to the homepage of the Canonical official website. There are three main products: Enterprise Service, engineering service and customer service. According to the definition of the International Standard Organization (ISO), Service is a product form. It can be concluded that Canonical is a new service provider (SP), and the Ubuntu operating system is just a "trump card" in its hands.

In the "News and Events" column on the official website of Canonical on October 11, March 21, the first News article was: "Canonical and Chinese standards body announce Ubuntu collaboration", meaning, canonical and China's standard organization announce the Ubuntu cooperation agreement. The main points are as follows:

I. CSIP defines a new reference architecture for standard operating systems in China

Ii. CSIP, Canonical and NUDT from the CCN Open Source Innovation Joint Lab to further that standard

Iii. CCN Joint Lab will produce Ubuntu Kylin, with first release expected in conjunction with Ubuntu 13.04 in each l 2013.

The first indicates that CSIP is the maker of the new benchmark platform for Standard Operating Systems in China. The second indicates that Canonical and CSIP will further promote and improve the standard. The third indicates: the new standard carrier Ubuntu Kirin will be released in May.

What aspects does this new standard involve? Answer: "Alibaba ss the full range of platforms: desktop, server, cloud, tablet and phone. apart from the high-sounding "outer packaging", in essence, the key of the Ubuntu unicorn event is: CSIP Chinese IT standards makers collude with the service providers that implement the standards in an attempt to take over the entire Chinese information industry operating system platform business for mutual gain. This is a typical case of collusion between officials and businessmen.

The original Canonical statement is as follows:

"London and Beijing, 21 March 2013: The China Software and Integrated Chip Promotions Centre (CSIP) today announced a new reference architecture for Chinese operating systems. CSIP, which is a part of the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MII), has selected Canonical's Ubuntu as the basis for that reference architecture in order to provide a flexible, open, widely-used and standardised operating system. the announcement helps strengthen the Chinese government's five year plan to promote open source software and accelerate the growth of the open source ecosystem within China.

Additionally, CSIP, Canonical and the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) have formed the CCN Open Source Innovation Joint Lab in Beijing. the Joint Lab hosts engineers from each organization who will accelerate the development of a China-focused version of Ubuntu for desktop and cloud.

"CSIP, Canonical and NUDT sharethe goal of widespread adoption of high quality Linux on personal devices and in the cloud," said Jane Silber, CEO of Canonical. "This collaboration will bring local investigation andparticipant ipation to ensure that the platform is relevant for the Chinesemarket, and close coordination with the global Ubuntu project ensures that it is familiar to software and hardware vendors, and useful for export products made by Chinese companies as well."

The initial work of the CCN Joint Lab is focused on the development of an enhanced version of the Ubuntu desktop with features specific to the Chinese market. the new version is called Ubuntu Kylin and the first version will be released in logs l 2013 in conjunction with Ubuntu's global release schedule. future work will extend beyond the desktop to other platforms.

Ubuntu Kylin goes beyond language localisation and includes des features and applications that cater for the Chinese market. in the 13.04 release, Chinese input methods and Chinese calendars are supported, there is a new weather indicator, and users can quickly search statistics ss the most popular Chinese musicservices from the Dash. future releases will include integration with Baidu maps and leading shopping service Taobao, payment processing for Chinese banks, and real-time train and flight information. theUbuntu Kylin team is cooperating with WPS, the most popular office suite in China, and is creating photo editing and system management tools which cocould be ininitialized into other flavors of Ubuntuworldwide.

"The release of Ubuntu Kylin brings the Chinese open source community into the global Ubuntu community," said Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and Canonical. "With Ubuntu Kylin, China now has its own secure and stable desktop operating system, produced alongside Ubuntu's global community. ubuntu combines proven technology with a mature ecosystem and strong OEM and ISV partners, and this initiative Allows the Joint Lab to bring those strengths to China wide ss the full range of platforms: desktop, server, cloud, tablet and phone !)

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