2020 South Korea will switch to open source operating system

The end of support for Windows XP is booked but not necessarily digested by governments that have failed to prepare in time despite the sirens switched longstanding Microsoft. A little trauma and already the prospect of a future with maturity in January 2020 that spell the end of any support ... Windows 7, the other popular Windows operating system, the Redmond company.

South Korea drapeauC'est with this date January 2020 in mind that South Korea has an open source plan and goal then move on to an operating system that will allow him to "reduce its reliance" versus some software.

The trek will be open source in several stages and to dedicate an open source ecosystem as a whole through cooperation between the public and private sector. From next year, a pilot project for open source operating system will involve ten public and private institutions.

In 2017, thanks to the work based on HTML5, it is intended to exclude the Microsoft Active X technology in public administration and service websites for customers, while documents will be disseminated in formats such as PDF HWP but which is not however an open format.

From 2018, the government of South Korea provides an audit to determine whether the introduction of open source software for computers has reduced spending. Microsoft's custom to attack this point by referring to hidden including those for training, maintenance costs. Appropriate and whether the cost savings are waiting for you, the open source plan can be generalized.

Such open source plans have already been mentioned several times in the past. All have not been carried through. On a smaller scale, the LiMux project of the Municipality of Munich has been completed against. To see so ...

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