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"It's not that it can't be up, but how to go." Under the guidance of multiple forces inside and outside the industry, domestic operating systems are accelerating their acquisition of more customers, especially customers in some key industries, trying their best to avoid the chip-like "bottleneck" situation in the operating system field. The main application scenarios of the
operating system include desktop, mobile and server, mainstream desktop operating systems Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS, and many Linux distributions, etc. The mobile operating systems include Google Android, Apple iOS, and the server operating systems include Unix, Linux, Windows Server and Netware.
No matter which scenario, the market share of domestic operating systems is in single digits or even lower. The operating system is between hardware and application software and is a basic software. The global market size is calculated at 10 billion, and China is one of the largest markets in the world.
With the improvement of the maturity of domestic operating systems and the innovation of information driven by policies, more and more companies have gone from the initial "watching the fun" to the adoption by themselves, thus opening a corner of the era of "big migration" of domestic operating systems.
Windows 7 service discontinuation and Windows cloudization
In January 2020, Microsoft officially stopped supporting Windows 7. Microsoft official no longer provides any software updates and vulnerability repair services, which means that Windows 7 users will face serious information security risks .
As early as May 2014, the Central State Organs Government Procurement Center issued a notice, clearly stipulating that all computer products are not allowed to install the Windows 8 operating system.
This is because since Windows 8, Windows has become a cloud operating system. The underlying data of the system can be synchronized to Microsoft's overseas servers, and the data security of domestic enterprises and institutions cannot be guaranteed.
According to the data provided by Tongxin software, as of January 2022, among domestic desktop operating system users, 48.33% of users used Windows 10, and 34.77% used Windows 7, followed by Windows 8, Mac OS, Windows XP, etc.
user uses a domestic desktop operating system mainly including two major scenarios, adding and refining . Some customers have sufficient funds and will give up their original hardware and re-purchase nationally produced hosts, which means they will add new users.
For some other users, , due to policy or financial reasons, they need to install domestic operating systems on old devices to replace the Windows operating system, which is divided into two categories. One category has a high tolerance level and can accept the migration of core business first and then gradually supplement the ecosystem. Another type of full disk migration, after switching Windows 7 to a domestic operating system, all original software and business systems are required to not interrupt .
"Wintel" alliance bundles software and hardware. The first barrier of domestic operating systems is hardware . The architecture of domestic or information technology-created devices is not only x86, but also includes various architectures such as Arm, MIPS, Shenwei and Loongson . Domestic operating systems need to be compatible with different chips.
Take Tongxin UOS operating system as an example. Usually, the customer situation is evaluated in the early stage. After the evaluation is completed, a detailed evaluation report is given, a solution is given to the migration problem, implemented and verified within a small range, and adjusted and optimized during the period until the plan meets the customer's requirements, and then promoted on a large scale.
From the perspective of specific products, "Tongxin Youyi Translation" can directly run Windows applications on Tongxin UOS. The business system is divided into two solutions: "Tongxin Youyouyou" and "Tongxin Youhe" to solve the problem that the BS architecture business system cannot be used. "Tongxin Youyi Ink" can directly run the Windows driver of the printer scanner on Tongxin UOS.
According to Tongxin data, nearly 100 national ministries and local governments in 31 provinces use Tongxin desktop operating systems, and finance and central enterprises are also their main customers.
CentOS is discontinued, domestic manufacturers relay
and talk about the desktop operating system, let’s take a look at the server operating system. Like the desktop operating system, the server operating system has also encountered the problem of server discontinuation.Linux server mainstream operating system CentOS is one of the open source Linux distributions and has a large user base. In December 2020, CentOS officially announced that CentOS will be terminated in one year, which caused concerns about the server operating system.
CentOS was previously maintained by Red Hat Company. The free version and the commercial version of Red Hat are not much different, which is equivalent to CentOS being downstream of Red Hat Company. Now the upstream and downstream relationship between CentOS and Red Hat is being reversed. The new CentOS Stream is more similar to a beta version before the commercial version was launched. Reliability and stability have caused users to worry. There are millions of CentOS users that can be counted in
, covering all walks of life, and domestic server operating system manufacturers have also seen the opportunities and have put forward slogans to replace CentOS, such as Huawei openEuler, Alibaba Dragon Lizard, and Tongxin UOS.
Take Tongxin UOS as an example. For CentOS migration and replacement, it is mainly divided into three parts: evaluation planning, migration implementation and verification online improvement. The migration tool "Tongxin Youyi" independently developed by Tongxin Software can help customers smoothly complete CentOS migration and replacement while maintaining the original hardware and application environment unchanged, and reduce the cost of customer system migration. At present, Tongxin Software's solutions have been widely used in telecommunications, finance, postal and other fields.
At the same time, with more and more industries applying independent operating systems, industry customers are facing difficulties in IT asset operation and maintenance management, such as complex organizational personnel management, numerous authentication accounts, and lack of terminal management methods. Centralized terminal management services including
Unified Identity Authentication , application software distribution, terminal monitoring and operation and maintenance, operating system update, operating system configuration, operating system activation, terminal security protection, operation statistics and auditing, etc. are common needs of users at scale.
Tongxin Software has launched a centralized domain management platform, which is used to solve terminal management and operation and maintenance, including the management backend of the B/S architecture and the client of the C/S architecture. It focuses on the two management objects of personnel and terminals, and provides the main functions of organizational structure and personnel management, unified identity authentication, terminal management and operation and maintenance, to meet the requirements of enterprises for centralized management of personnel and terminals, improve management efficiency and reduce operation and maintenance costs.
From desktop operating system to server operating system, domestic operating systems have established technical confidence in information innovation. In the future, as more and more companies migrate to domestic operating systems, the operating system will embark on a more benign development path. (This article was first published in Titanium Media APP Author | Zhang Shuai)
