Subject: Çin'de Linux
From: Gorkem Cetin (gorkem@gelecek.com.tr)
Date: Thu 09 Dec 1999 - 01:20:32 EET
Çin, sunucularında Linux'u seçiyor, sebebi ilginç.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/991110/22/ax8w.html
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/991102/ca_graphon_1.html
China has also knighted Linux as their "Official Operating System". This
decision covers all Chinese universities, military installations, and
government. China's enthusiasm and confidence in the once renegade Linux
OS is well founded. The decision to use Linux is expected to save China
billions of dollars in the long term and coincides with recent
announcements by GraphOn Corp. to provide Linux servers to the Chinese
private enterprise, education, military, and government sectors. As China
boasts a population of over one billion, this is indeed a big deal.
The Chinese government is so enthusiastic about the community ethos behind
the open source community that it is making Linux the official operating
system of the Peoples Republic of China, thanks to a deal struck with US
server side computing firm GraphOn.
The deal will allow a variety of server side applications to be run on
cost efficient Linux boxes in Chinese universities, military installations
and even within the government.
According to GraphOn there is a strong identification between communist
China and the open-source free operating system that is taking the western
world by storm. "Enthusiasm for Linux is coming from the very highest
level of the Government in China," says Robin Ford executive vice
president of GraphOn. "There are cultural reasons why they are so
interested in Linux in China, because it is open source."
GraphOn concedes however that the Chinese government is probably enthused
by its server technology because it provides a simple way of keeping an
eye on users' computer activity. "It is all about control but it's not an
ugly or a bad control, it's not a big brother sort of thing," says Ford.
"It's about cost control and they've looked at the problems that other
markets have had with desktop based application and want to avoid them."
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