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

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Thu May 22 14:06:25 CDT 2014


If China, ever wants to go its own way and not be directed and totally dependant on foreign governments they will have to set up an infrastructure that is built upon a system that is fully Open Sourced. Already many of the latest OSS products available have been co-written by Chinese nationals. Most of the major products out there have been assembled by techs from all over the world. Central depositories like GitHub have even gone so far as to remove any references to a developers country of origin so to stop political inference in OS application design. (The US government has tried to stop such collaborations, like with Iranian or Chinese programmers but are getting little or no help from the OSS community.) 
 
Interesting to note that the most powerful super computer in the world, by far, was built, in China using multiple Ubuntu Linux servers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianhe-2)...an OS you could easily run on your desktop... (Now think of Windows 8x. ;-))  

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 6:49:40 AM
Subject: [dba-Tech] Chinese government bans Windows 8 in government	departments

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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