Doing the operating system is a matter of enterprise autonomy

Abstract: Whether to develop domestic or independent operating system is basically a menstrual problem, every once in a while there will be enterprises out of the bleeding show. Encounter Google (Weibo) blocked, Microsoft charges these special days, but also an additional attack. To fight,

Whether to develop domestic or independent operating system is basically a menstrual problem, every once in a while there will be enterprises out of the bleeding show. Encounter Google (Weibo) blocked, Microsoft charges these special days, but also an additional attack. Struggle to go, Miao Uncle hope to form a consensus: Do the operating system is enterprise autonomy, and some enterprises to a certain degree of natural will do. Do not let the "nuclear high-based" and other national funds to be mixed. All say to do autonomous systems and want to go with the country to ask for money (is with taxpayers to ask for money), we see a spurned one.

Let's start by defining the operating system. University computer textbook said operating system is a software system, can directly to the hardware system management function calls, for other applications and hardware communication channels, while providing users with basic operating interface (English version). Many domestic projects with this definition of money. But in the software highly engineering, hardware itself intelligent today, this definition has already been surpassed. There is a wealth of operating system development, migration experience of the flying Diffuse software CEO Wei Yongming in this article mentioned in the current environment of an operating system should be the elements: the operating system should have its own ecosystem, that is, technically with the other OS of the partition, the market on the formation of the Hardware Business Alliance, The legal core of the patented technology, the follow-up strength of the active and stable developer community.

This standard clearly combs our recognition of the operating system, and the success of the conditions of the judgment, but also see the commercial nature of the operating system: it for enterprises to consolidate and expand their own advantages, with technology, patent and market barriers to maintain competitive advantage, while leveraging the support of developers to win rich applications and rapid system upgrades, To occupy the market.

Now you should know, ask what the beginning of the article I would like to say, with the country to reach for money to develop the operating system is a liar.

Essentially, the operating system is a commodity designed to establish a competitive advantage. State money to prop up a company to monopolize, IT companies are not going to become the same as two barrels of oil as a shameless? And some companies also sing this is for national security interests, all is nonsense.

OK, now for the second question, clean business companies have to build their own operating systems. Uncle Miao believes that, in the long run, the software company scale to a certain extent, will naturally grow out of operating system ambitions. Because the operating system is the foundation of all software, and the greater the company's business, the more uneasy to infrastructure in other people's homes, who knows if the sand below is a volcano, when they draw a board. More importantly, the larger the company, the more it will feel the existing environment for its own business development constraints, must create a new environment to adapt to their own.

Google, for example, was created when Microsoft had dominated, but for a long time it did search, Microsoft did operating systems and office software, and the business did not seem to compete. But Google's sense of crisis is that Microsoft controls the PC portal of the operating system to control people's browsing behavior, which in turn threatens the search core-the way Netscape was killed. So Google has to do its own browser and buy Android to defend itself against the possibility of a Microsoft-gated gateway.

And from a more positive point of view, the Windows system is the product of the PC era, in the internet age and the mobile era does not fully meet demand, such as power consumption, bulky, expensive weaknesses, which will limit people's access to the Internet and demand, thereby restricting Google's market space. So Google needs to build a more energy-efficient, low-cost, portable operating system to expand its user base, thereby boosting market space.

These two factors are here, the latter factor is more important than the previous factor, because the IT industry after the enterprise more dynamic and aggressive, but also need to break the existing pattern, so Google, even if not deliberately with Microsoft competition, will actively promote its own operating system. In contrast to the domestic shouting to push the independent operating system manufacturers, most of them are to resist resisting foreign aggression, prevent the lifeline is controlled, such as negative thinking, can speak out their business needs of the new operating system to expand the few, this is a domestic such a liar most of the performance.

Finally, the domestic companies to develop an independent operating system feasible path. Previously said that the development of the operating system everyone Chi Chi and hardware to do, or take the open source of Linux change it to award. But if the development is led by the company, it is basically determined that this is not cost-effective, because the risk is too big, a failure of the whole. In fact, Google's path is a very replicable route, which is to develop ecosystems first and then gradually reach upstream. In other words, through the free ecosystem, the first to gather the developers, the community active, patent accumulation good, industrial alliance to build a perfect, and finally in the technical slowly raise the barrier. All these conditions are in place, and then flap arm the Bastille.

Currently fully equipped with these conditions of Chinese enterprises is not, but to say close to the degree, Tencent's QQ and micro-letter, Alibaba platform, Baidu's box, have this potential (Huawei, ZTE from the hardware traced to the operating system, in the community and technical barriers have no advantage). In the open degree and the developer community, the Industry alliance construction aspect, is Alibaba to do best, the technical foundation aspect, then is Tencent most has the superiority, although Tencent's opening footstep actually has not gone very quickly. Therefore, if the future really said that there is a need for domestic enterprises to engage in autonomous operating system, there is hope to make, in general, from these families produced.