The International Group, which is awarded by the French Mandrakesoft, has struggled to a contract worth 7 million euros ($ 8.6 million) and will greatly improve Linux safety standards.
It has recently been detached from Mandrakesoft, and BERTIN Technologies, Surlog, Jaluna, and Oppida, will jointly improve Linux's safety standards to obtain Common Criteria's assessment to ensure the fifth (EAL5) certification. This certification is particularly important for military and government departments; the French Ministry of National Defense is the main gold owner of the program.
The EAL5 certification level is much higher than the level obtained by the existing Linux version. The Red Hat obtained EAL2 and EAL3 certification from April and August this year, while Novell's SUSE Linux reached EAL3 this year. These two companies that dominate the source code operating system market, which is now working with IBM and Oracle cooperation to obtain a higher level of safety certification.
Microsoft's Windows, Sun's Solaris, HP's HP-UX and IBM AIX have EAL4 certification. EAL5 is very rare; IBM has obtained EAL5 with the technique of dividing its Z900 and Z990 large hosts.
Although Mandrake once fell into a financial crisis, it has begun to profit, and the company's business layer is optimistic about the future. Although the company is located in Paris, about 40% of revenues from North America. Mandrake said that the planning results will be released in the form of open source software. (CNET Technology Information Network Chen Zhiwen)
