Subject: Re: [LINUX:11015] Çin'de Linux
From: Ertugrul Komut (linux@gul.net.tr)
Date: Thu 09 Dec 1999 - 21:00:22 EET
sebebi neymis ? bende bilmek istiyom :)
Gorkem Cetin wrote:
> 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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