TOM Technology News Beijing Time August 23 Message Linux operating system once again overwhelming Microsoft's Windows operating system, becoming the preferred software for the education department. The Korean Ministry of Education recently said that the Linux operating system will be installed on the "National Education Information System" (NEIS) serving primary and secondary schools in the near future. It is reported that Neis will be one of the largest LINUX system installation plans in Korea, which connects all of South Korea's primary and secondary schools and related government departments. At last Friday, commercial consulting and IT service provider BearingPoint submitted the NEIS plan final program to Korean Education and Human Resources Department. According to this scheme, 2700 servers in the NEIS system will use the Linux operating system. The rest of the 700 servers will use UNIX operating systems. An official of the Korean government confirmed this saying, and said that the Ministry will announce the final decision in mid-September. Jung Yong-Kyun, the Neis Project Consulting Manager, in the explanation of the government department, mainly using the Linux operating system, because the Linux operating system can resolve a large amount of information processing between the server at a lower cost. In Asia, South Korea is the main supporter of open source, so the Korean Ministry of Education will use the Linux operating system and is not a surprising thing. In September last year, the Korean government announced that the large number of computer systems in the existing public sector 2007 will use the Linux operating system to replace the Windows operating system. In addition to promoting open source movements in China, the Korean government has also developed a Linux version that replaces the Windows operating system with China and Japan.
