The general trend, open source operating system is forced out

After Microsoft abandoned XP, not only China, but also many countries feel that since Microsoft is so absolute, it is not as clean as to push the country's open source operating system. In this way, not only can strengthen their own strength, but also can occupy a place in the operating system market. Why not?

South Korea says it will adopt local Open-source software 2020 years ago. The South Korean government is so strong because it has a strong background in scientific research and development to support.

1, domestic Tmax is kingly

The South Korean government is so strong this time that it has nothing to do with the progress of its science and technology development. As early as 09, Korea's Tmaxcore company took four years to develop its own operating system Tmax Window. The system can be compatible with Microsoft Office software and IE browser, but also has the characteristics of strong stability, high compatibility, security and ease of use. With previous experience in system development, South Korea's government wants to use its own Open-source software.

2. Linux is the only

Norway's second-largest city, Bergen, has moved many municipal management and education servers to Linux on a massive scale and is migrating 100 schools to open source desktops. After the plan is completed, it is intended to migrate all the desktops of the city administration to the open source operating system. It is said that the Norwegian public sector's adoption of open source software began in the education sector, due to a lack of support for local languages in Microsoft's products.

More than 100 schools in Norway use Skolelinux, which is a custom-built version of Linux for schools. Although Bergen is one of the most famous cities in Norway using Open-source software, according to Bergen's chief technology officer Tuftedal, all systems in Sarpsborg, southeast Norway, are running Linux.

Eirik Chambe-eng, president of Norwegian software company Trolltech, believes the introduction of new IT systems in recent years has stimulated the Norwegian Government's adoption of open source.

3, Egroupware is also very powerful

The Brazilian government may distribute 1 million laptops running Open-source software to local schools. The Massachusett Technology Association has launched a program to build Low-cost Linux laptops for developing countries. The Brazilian government is considering making 2 million such laptops, half of which will be distributed to local schools and is studying the financial plan.

There are many large-scale migrations in the Brazilian state Government, for example, the Parana state is migrating 10,000 government employees from proprietary software to a customized version of open source collaboration software Egroupware, and São Paulo has 16,000 PCs and 1000 Linux servers in statewide schools. Some state agencies are also migrating to open source software, and it is reported that seven out of 22 federal departments are using open source. This includes many open source desktop configurations, such as Sun's product marketing manager Erwin Tenhumberg, who says 4,000 hosts in the federal government use OpenOffice.org.

The Brazilian federal government has drafted a bill requiring the public sector to use Open-source software. The decree urges government departments to migrate to Open-source software unless they can prove that it is reasonable to continue using proprietary software.

4, Ubuntu emerging

A decade ago, many countries in Europe had begun to aggressively promote Open-source software, with the largest countries not France. Through policy support and high-profile projects, the French Republic has been vigorously developing open-source software for years, particularly in the government and education sectors. The French government last year sent 175,000 free USB flash drives to college students.

Even today, France continues to make Open-source software a more important task and to take more favorable measures to support open source software vendors.

This January, the French paramilitary police force said it would gradually abandon the use of Microsoft's Windows operating system and switch to the Linux operating system. Since 2005, the French national Gendarmerie has abandoned the use of Microsoft Office suite and IE Browser, instead of using OpenOffice and Firefox browser and other Open-source products.

The French National Gendarmerie Corps has said it has saved millions of euros by deploying Ubuntu to replace Microsoft's Windows. French police have been transitioning to Open-source software since 2005, when they used OpenOffice to replace Microsoft's Ofiice. Other open-source software, including Firefox and Thunderbird, was gradually introduced.

5. US also relaxed restrictions on open source software

New York State Legislature changes the U.S. tax code, the open source software developers to the personal income tax subsidy (relief 20%), the maximum subsidy limit of 200 U.S. dollars (annual).

The House and Senate voted to approve a $787 billion trillion package of economic stimulus, which is expected to be submitted to President Obama in Monday. An interesting rule buried deep in the details of the stimulus package may help open source software into the medical field. Plan document (PDF) page No. 488 mentions that the Minister of Health and Public service should study the open source health technology system. Wikipedia has an entry listing dozens of open-source health software.

It is absolutely rare to see open source software in the federal appropriation bill. But the U.S. Congress's 2009-Year Defense Authority law proposal included a call for military agencies to consider using Open-source software in people or unmanned aerial equipment. The bill does not specify how to use open source software, but the House Military Committee's report said, "the Commission is concerned about rising costs and reducing security-related issues in information system software development".

6, to save money to choose Open Source software

According to the BBC, the British government will soon make the decision to promote open source software, considering the procurement of OSS as a public service alternative to commercial software, the government said "only when the money spent the most value" can be passed, and most open source software is free.

In business software, the government is beset by contracts and permits, and once the license expires, the government will pay for the software again, and with open source software, all this can be avoided and open source software is the best choice for a financially strained UK. The Government has not yet proposed the deployment of open source software specific plans, but not the details of the plan, the largest software provider Microsoft and Sun did not oppose this, but is active support, Bill Gates in CNet said free software represents an attitude, should strive to develop this open attitude.

7, Nova from behind

Cuba has launched its own Linux operating system, known as Nova, to counter the threat of Microsoft Windows to its national interests.

This Linux version also includes some application software. The system was introduced in Havana at a conference on "technology sovereignty". Cuban University of Information Science, Director of the School of Free software, said that 20% of Cuban computers are using Linux, saying that many of Cuba's universities and government departments have started migrating to Linux, but some state-owned companies are concerned that the system is incompatible with their software applications.

Rodriguez said half of Cuba's computers will use Home-grown Linux systems within five years.

The Cuban Government believes that the use of Windows systems poses a threat to Cuba's national security, as the United States security agencies can touch the code of Microsoft's Windows system. In addition, due to the United States long-term sanctions against Cuba, Cuba is difficult to obtain new Windows Genuine software, as well as the latest software updates.

Cuba's Minister of communications, Valdez, says getting greater self-control in the information field is an important issue. Valdez himself led a committee to promote free software in Cuba. It is worth mentioning that, since last year, Cuban residents have been allowed to buy personal computers.

8, GNU two-pronged

The German foreign ministry replaced all 11,000 of its computers with GNU and other Open-source software. The move would make the Ministry of Foreign Affairs significantly less costly to maintain than other departments. "The foreign Ministry needs to run computers in remote and difficult locations," said Rolf Schuste, a diplomat at the German Embassy in Madrid and former foreign ministry it director. We spend 1000 euros a year on every computer, but still far below the average cost of 3000 euros per year for every computer in other departments. He says the open source desktop system is much less expensive to maintain than the private system.

9, Linux based Russian OS

The Russian Postal department's computer systems are about to migrate to the Linux platform, and organizations have begun testing whether Linux meets their needs. It is reported that the main reason for its turn to Linux platform is to reduce costs. Although the Russian postal service does not currently say which version will be used specifically, the message from many Parties indicates that it is most likely to adopt Red Hat Linux.

If tested, more than 42,000 Russian post office computer systems will migrate to the Linux platform, involving more than 125,000 calculations. Every day, countless letters, periodicals, parcels and remittances will be scheduled using the Linux platform's computers. It may take a long time to complete this migration because of its scale and breadth of coverage.

Russia used Linux-based Russian OS in all schools in 2007 to promote Open-source software vigorously. All over Russia have to do a variety of workshops, training courses to learn Linux. The Russian government has made a big effort to invest a lot of money in schools to deploy open source operating systems. When this generation comes out of school, they choose the most familiar Linux Open-source software, both at home and at work, without the need to repeat the path of pirated Microsoft software.

Summary

It is not hard to see that all of these countries, when preparing for their own retreat, are almost entirely on the road to salvation with the support of national governments. The technology innovation method can always let you no longer depend on others.

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