[dba-Tech] Chinese government bans Windows 8 in government departments

Arthur Fuller fuller.artful at gmail.com
Thu May 22 08:49:40 CDT 2014


Given the little diplomatic jousting over cyber-war, culminating in the
charges against a half-dozen senior military officers for cyber-espionage,
the ban against use of Windows 8 is well-timed if not surprising.

More interesting IMO is China's embrace of Linux, especially for its
servers and big data centers, with growth in 2013 at 33%. No doubt the
adoption rate would be even higher if companies did not have to build the
eco-systems themselves. This from a story in Wired:

That’s why IBM, in collaboration with Red Hat and SUSE, recently unveiled its
first Power Systems Linux Center in
China<http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/41040.wss>.
The movement towards pre-integrated systems and robust development on Linux
is only going to continue to rapidly grow around the world, as
organizations seek higher utilization, better resiliency and stronger
security as they leverage new computing abilities.

China has a unique set of enterprise computing challenges with massive
changes underway in their financial services, transportation, retail and
communications industries. As Linux continues to advance in the country,
we’ll see potential for new open source innovations that can be replicated
around the world.

-- 
Arthur


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