20060921 Great Linux and MySQL Liaison Could Fuel a Chinese Linux Growth
From s5h.net
Great Linux Joins Hands with MySQL
The world's most popular open source database MySQL AB and Great Linux Inc. jointly announced in recent days the establishment of the co-invested MySQL China R&D center. [...] Great Linux, a China-based open source software solution and technological service provider, devotes itself to promoting the LAMP framework (namely Linux operating system, Apache network server, MySQL database, and Perl/Python/PHP programming language) using open source code in the Chinese market. [...] Open source software product is growing quickly worldwide, and China, as one of the fast-developing economies, possesses the huge user foundation and a legion of open source product development institutions, said David Axmark. MySQL notices the rapid development of the Chinese market and expects to make more contribution to the Chinese open source cause.
http://storage.ittoolbox.com/news/display.asp?i=148211&t=6
Recent news regarding Linux in China:
"Why does Google use open source? The reason is very simple -- we must take our fate into our own hands. To China, the situation is just the same," said president of Google China, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, during a talk at the 2006 Open Source China Conference held in Beijing on August 24 and 25.
http://business.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/09/18/1835233&from=rss
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/50004.html
Linux Set to Soar in China
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2006/06/03/2003311446
Government says all new PCs must be Linux-friendly
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2006/01/a_big_step_for.html "China has long been seen as a fertile ground for Linux and other open source software. In a country where more than 90% of software in use is pirated, it seems like a natural fit."
China to produce $125 (Linux) PC
A Chinese outfit is hoping to release a PC which will hit the shops with a price tag of $125.
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34355
China looks to open-source community for advice
China is counting on senior members of the open-source community to help formulate policy ideas to promote open-source software, according to a local software executive. The China Open-Source Software Promotion Union (COPU), a government-backed industry group, has established a think tank comprised of 19 prominent open-source executives from overseas to develop a framework for better international cooperation.
China's Linux Adoption Threat to Microsoft?
Most recently, China has been placing their bets on Linux over Windows as the dominant OS for their needs. And one of the best examples of this on the desktop front would have to be with Turbolinux. The distribution has been so widely accepted by the Chinese that even HP has decided to begin selling PCs with the OS preinstalled for distribution. But it doesn't stop there. China has a distribution of its very own; you may know it as Red Flag Linux.
http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2249&Itemid=449
Many such vendors previously sold PCs with free operating systems such as Linux or none at all... Observers believe the Chinese vendors signed their deals with Microsoft in April under pressure from Beijing, which is trying to show it is making serious efforts to stamp out piracy -- a major complaint from many Western governments. In late March, the Chinese government went so far as to issue a decree requiring PC makers to install a licensed operating system on each machine before it left the factory.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060601/bs_nm/china_microsoft_dc
