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Chinese Companies Plan Massive Linux Deployments

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Tokyo-based TurboLinux has recently announced that the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China will roll out Linux in all of its 20,000 retail branches. ICBC, which has 100 million customers and over 8 million corporate accounts, is the largest bank in China.

Under the deal, ICBC will buy an unrestricted user license and will integrate it throughout its entire banking operations network over the next three years..

Other Linux vendors are gracious about the ICBC win, describing it as an indication of growth in the overall Linux market. "ICBC is a good sign," says Chris Zhao, vice president of Beijing-based Red Flag Software, a leading Chinese Linux vendor. "We are happy to see this. It represents the rise in usage at the enterprise level, not just in the government sector."
 
Its about time. MS software is like TP over there. Actually you can get MS faster than TP, just go there and check.
 
Explain how this will possibly benefit MS? Seems to me this move will strengthen a major MS competitor in the software OS market....
 
Originally posted by: Bluefront
Explain how this will possibly benefit MS? Seems to me this move will strengthen a major MS competitor in the software OS market....
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It will help reduce the availability and demand for warez MS products in China... ah who am kidding, the Pirate market in China is enormous, this won't do anything for MS but it will improve the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China's image abroad.
 
The question is, of course, will they be any better about the licences for Linux and the apps it usually associates with? Sure, for Joe Blow's desktop, Linux might as well come with no strings attached; but the GPL does have some provisions, and in large deployments they can make a diffirence. Somehow I wouldn't feel too warm and fuzzy about their "cleaning up their act" if it means going from warez Windows to warez Linux.
 
Originally posted by: phisrow
The question is, of course, will they be any better about the licences for Linux and the apps it usually associates with? Sure, for Joe Blow's desktop, Linux might as well come with no strings attached; but the GPL does have some provisions, and in large deployments they can make a diffirence. Somehow I wouldn't feel too warm and fuzzy about their "cleaning up their act" if it means going from warez Windows to warez Linux.
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If they're going through turbo linux, then it's turbo linux's problem. And they'll deal with it properly. They've been ok for the past however many years they've been around.

Other than that, there won't be a whole lot that has to be done. If they modify and distrubite, they just have to offer the source changes to the people they distribute to.
 
Originally posted by: nweaver
toilet paper
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It's a true story folks. The public toilets in China (HK/Shanghai) doesn't have toilet paper. It's a strange cultural thing, but considering that they do have billions of people, you would have to provide a ton of TP.
 
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