[Tech] La Cina sempre piu' orientata a usare Linux

In Settembre Giappone, Cina e Corea del Sud avevano annunciato di voler collaborare allo sviluppo di un sistema operativo open source Linux-based.



Ora la Cina conferma l'intenzione di investire pesantemente nel mondo Linux:

China would build a domestic software industry around Linux -- a cheaper software standard that can copied and modified freely -- said Gou Zhongwen, a vice minister at the powerful Ministry of Information Industry.



"Linux is an opportunity for us to make a breakthrough in developing software," he was quoted as saying on the ministry Web site www.mii.gov.cn. "But the market cannot be developed on a large scale without government support."



Gou did not give details on the amount of planned government investment in Linux.



China's information technology market is growing at 20 percent a year, with software sales expected to reach $30.5 billion in 2005, according to research house International Data Corp.

Attualmente il mercato cinese è dominato da colossi quali Microsoft, Oracle, IBM e Sybase.



Fonte: Yahoo! News.