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The business of Linux in China
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Khairil Yusof
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2006-04-12 08:50 PM
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It's a sign of a changing landscape for open source in China. While the government has publicly voiced support for open source and has funded a number of initiatives, there have been few large-scale migrations to the software in the government sector. This is expected to change, however, now that the Chinese government has mandated the use of locally produced software in its departments.
At the Boston show, ZDNet UK spoke to two Linux players in the region.
Albert Chung, the chief marketing officer at Sun Wah Linux, one of the
major desktop Linux vendors in China, shared his thoughts in an
interview. He discussed why the software isn't ready for the consumer
desktop market, told some customer success stories and outlined the
challenges Sun Wah faced in creating its own Linux distribution. In a
separate interview, Qinghua Hu, the general director of the
government-sponsored Beijing Software Industry Productivity Center,
spoke about the factors limiting the use of Linux on the desktop and
predicted where the Linux desktop market will be in five years.
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