Linux sees big growth in China, despite problems
At the 2006 China Linux User Convention, held in Beijing on December 21, Chinese Linux users, producers, press, and analysts discussed recent developments in China's Linux and open source industry.
Zhang Shiliang, who is in charge of the use of open source software in Beijing's Pinggu County government, spoke about the problems of Linux use in his organization. Chinese government is one of the biggest Linux buyers in the country. Since the Pinggu government began to push the use of open source software in 2004, 85% of their 4,680 computers have installed Linux or other open source software. But 53% of them still have to install Microsoft Windows as well, because their superior government uses Windows or other operating systems -- even other incompatible editions of Linux.
Zhang suggested that Linux companies work together to enact a uniform industry standard to avoid incompatibility among themselves and improve compatibility with Windows, or at least "promote the use of open source software [in the government] from up to down, not from down to up. If software companies sell Linux to superior governments first, then junior governments have to follow them," Zhang says.
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