"IT Times Weekly" special reporter / Wang Rong (Beijing report)
Recently, 6 PC vendors collectively abandon Windows behavior, as if the industry saw Linux to defeat Microsoft's hopes. Is the fact now?
"Say 6 PC manufacturers 'collective betrayal' Microsoft's legal method is a hype." Dr. Zheng Zhongyuan, vice president of Beijing Zhongke Red Flag Company, is affirmed when he accepts "IT Times Weekly". Mr. Huang, the Hong Kong Instant Scientific Research Group, also believes that: "These 6 brand PC pre-installed is a thin desktop system, mainly in response to PC home appliances, not to fight Microsoft." Zhongke Hongqi and immediate research are developed The Linux operating system is the main developer, and the latter is now the third largest Linux developer in the world.
The high-rise of the two companies is simultaneously made, and there will be six computer vendors in the PC product to pre-assemble the thin Linux operating system in the PC product for the recent rumor in Beijing. This system does not emphasize the computer's PC characteristics, but more than the family theater, music and other home appliance feature, which only retains two traditional functions of browser and system management tools. Microsoft's Windows will degenerate the normal function of the computer. To this end, some views of the Beijing industry industry think that China's PC manufacturers began 'Collective betray' Microsoft, and even more people will regard this as the prelude of China Linux challenge Microsoft WINDOWS.
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Zheng Zhongyuan and Mr. Huang quickly walked out the enthusiasm of "Windows Guild Wars Linux". And this expectation, in China, Japan and South Korea announced joint development of Linux Northeast Asian standards, and Lenovo, Fang Zheng launched a "bare metal" that did not pre-installed the operating system, once a hot topic.
Microsoft Global Strategy General Manager Martin Taylor has expressed the "IT Times Weekly" in the way to China, and the two technologies of Windows and Linux are not opposite; Zheng Zhongyuan also believes that Zhongke Red Flag is Linux, but does not hate Microsoft. Regardless of technology development, or business operations, Zhongke Hongqi must learn to the other party.
That is, Linux is gradually eating that Microsoft's existing market is an uncomfortable fact. The Zhongke Hongqi in which Zheng is located is established in 2000, and the Hongqi Linux operating system developed has been a fierce confrontation in the domestic market.
On July 22nd, China Open Source Software Promotion Alliance, which is the mainland of Zhongke Hongqi and a Creative Open Source, was established in Beijing. On the same day, the first "Linux Public Service Technical Support Center" in the Mainland was officially enabled in Guangdong. In the future, it will provide Linux application projects and software companies to provide Linux application system development technical support services.
In addition, real-time scientific research promotes Linux in China also makes the industry impressed. On July 23, the two large Linux Software Research Institutes established by the group were also completed in Beijing and Dalian. It is reported that the company will also establish a research institute in Shanghai, Shenzhen and Xi'an. Since this year, companies and institutions similar to instant research groups are creating a atmosphere suitable for Linux development, so that the competition between Linux and Windows is increasingly hot, and the balance seems to be rapidly inclined by one side of Linux.
Not only Linux software companies are in step by step, but computer manufacturers seem to be interested in unintentional aliecans. On August 3, Lenovo launched an ultra-low-cost computer for township users; "New T-Series Computer" that is launched in 5 days, discarding Windows systems, appearing in the "bare metal", making the industry shocked. Some insiders pointed out that although Linux can't make Windows fade out on the desktop in a short time, the market and policy environment has become more and more conducive to Linux development. Especially in recent years, the government has increasingly increasingly tend to choose Linux in the process of informationization. In this situation, Windows will be ended on the situation in the domestic PC market.
All this, there is no way to show a Linux market movement is coming.
Linux's dilemma
Domestic from 2000 to now, IT companies have great development, so far there are already more than a dozen companies listed in the United States and Hong Kong, but there is a great crisis in the application of software, especially software piracy. The problem allows the software developers to hurt their hearts. In contrast, the Chinese red flag with official background is good in the domestic living environment. The company has always rely on government orders to survive, which makes Linux peers envious. However, because of its limitations and influence on the industry, Linux systems currently focus on the field of servers and embedded operating systems.
In the desktop field, Linux operating system and other desktop office software face the same problem. Zhongke Hongqi operating system, as well as the relative mature desktop software such as Yongzhong Technology's permanent office, which is technically close to the degree of mature use. However, there is still no mature business model so far.
Microsoft's desktop operating system and office software, currently in China, the domestic market share, Microsoft is a user base that is cultivated by piracy, refusing to use domestic software to be the biggest embarrassment of software manufacturers. Government procurement is the main way of cultivating user groups, and Yongzhong Technology is authorized by Jiangsu Province to rely on primary and secondary school venues, and hopes hopes in the next generation of computer users. In Jiangsu, the software license of the whole school is only a few thousand dollars, but it is not enough to retail the retail price of Microsoft operating systems and office software.
Unfair competitive environments, so that domestic software manufacturers have suffering. In fact, it is not only software manufacturers, but also software vendors, IT hardware vendors are subject to Microsoft's price in OEM. In front of the PC manufacturers in the profits, the operating system OEM prices have differently and down a few yuan, which determines their competitive advantage in the market.
PC manufacturers in China now are in reducing costs in the market "running" survival, and their maximum source of profits is to earn a return price of national value-added tax. In order to get OEM's preferential prices in China, domestic first-line manufacturers, who dare to make OEM to make fun in front of Microsoft, and will definitely affect the market share of the next year.
Self-developed Linux desktop operating system Lenovo, but he has to take his Lenovo happiness Linux Tibet. Lenovo made this strategic choice, the purpose is by no means a positive competition with Microsoft on the desktop system. Lenovo developed happiness Linux, just a market deterrence of its "nuclear strategy", gaining a preferential market price in a year and OEM negotiations.
Lenovo is an IT manufacturer of hardware, engage in software is definitely not the strength of Lenovo. Technology R & D in Lenovo's "Skills, Workers, Trade" or "Trade, Workers, Technical" strategic portfolios, but Linux is never an important piece of chess pieces on the blueprint of the Lenovo strategy, and the project technology research and development of the old man, it has shown it. Linux is in Lenovo props.
When is the desktop?
"Beijing government procurement, will have a red flag in the red flag every year." Zheng Zhongyuan clearly expressing the support of Zhongke Hongqi to rely on government procurement. According to him, Linux operating system has developed greatly in government, finance, energy, education, transportation, postal, news, lottery, security and other industries.
"At the desktop operating system and Microsoft's positive competition is not realistic, the real maturity and optimism is also two years." Zheng said, "" The key to the competition of desktop system is the formation of complete industrial chains, not only need to apply software products There are also hardware drivers, even the entire network environment and the game industry cooperates with users' habits. "
According to market statistics, there is currently in the server field Linux and the Windows operating system is connected to, forming a high-stricken pattern; in the field of embedded operating system, Linux exceeds 52%; desktop operating system, although Linux and Windows are also gap Larger, but it has already risen to 3.2%. It is in the support of government procurement policies, people are being able to understand and understand the Linux desktop system. It is expected that the domestic Linux market will grow at a average growth rate of about 46% per year in the next five years. In addition to cross-platform advantages, Linux has not much virus for Linux in the world. Zheng Zhongyuan said that there is a financial personnel of a township government in Guangxi because the surroundings lack the Linux operating system user, and the computer financial data is very safe.
Zheng Zhongyuan introduced that Linux systems and Microsoft Windows are about to start positive competition, optimistic estimates for two years, and conservatively said that is 3 years. He said: "The whole world industrial landscape is in silence, this time, Lenovo and Fangzheng launched a cheap PC, which is a clear market signal."
At present, Linux has formed three major market power in the United States, Germany, and East Asia, against the US Microsoft operating system in different market spaces. The software applicants of the pedestal boat have not betrayed Microsoft, but most of them are ready for cross-platform.
However, although the open source movement is in full swing, the Group has no unresnation of Linux not form a unified international standard in the global market. Therefore, in the near future, East Asia's two Northeast Asia OSS promoted the forum, China, Japan and South Korea reached an agreement to develop Asianux Northeast Asian standards. Zheng Zhongyuan is one of the actual promoters of the two meetings. He believes that the establishment of international regional standards is conducive to promoting global standards. The emergence of Asianux Northeast Asian standard protocol is also the first to launch a regional Linux Standards.
Although there is still some major issues in the Linux desktop operating system, such as software support for the Internet environment, such as the lack of support for online games, and cannot quickly develop us in ordinary users. While we see these market blind areas, the entire industry chain will not ignore the existence of this problem.
With the dramatic changes in the global industry chain, the main hardware partners in AMD, Dell, HP, Wave, NEC and Sun have started a lot of close cooperation with domestic Linux companies. In the future, it will be more. Oracle is the only commercial software vendor that fully supports Asianux, and customers who deploy Asianux provide all-weather support services, and invested in Japan Miracle, accounting for 2/3 shares.
A global desktop operating system "sector drift" and "The Mountain Sports" will be born with a few of the Windows counterparts, LINUX International Peaks. And China will inevitably stand up.
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