Subject: [LINUX:11101] Re: [LINUX:11015] Çin'de Linux
From: Ismail Kizir (ikizir@teklan.com.tr)
Date: Sun 12 Dec 1999 - 00:35:53 EET
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Ismail Kizir
>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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