Northeast Asia OSS trends - International workshop on future software technology 2005 in shanghai -

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Northeast Asia OSS trends- International
workshop on future software technology 2005 in
shanghai -

• Hiroshi Miura
• Kobe Institute of Computing
• Graduate School of Information Technology
• department of information systems, adjunct
  professor
• NTT DATA Intellilink Co.
• Open Source Engineering Devision, Manager

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Northeast Asia OSS Market situation

• Market trends in government sector for OSS/Linux
• Regional difference on awareness and adoption
• Procurement guidelines (specifications that are
  more general, open and standards based instead of
  infrastructure specifics for targeted suppliers)
• Governments now promote Linux/OSS as alternative
  or rather coming in first.

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Open Standard and OSS

• Regional difference on application target
• US, EU Server, Client
• Japan Enterprise server, mission critical
  server
• Korea Embedded Linux
• China Desktop Linux
• Weak point 2/3 are related to standardization
• Performance
• Operation
• Stabilities of specification

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Future OSS technology

• To use on the field of consumer market (Desktop),
  commodity and mature software is wanted.
• Open standard is key issue on deployment of
  desktop.
• e.g.) Joint effort of IM engine SPI specification
  for standardization.
• Governments are interested in open standards now.
• Such as OASIS Open Document, ISO Linux, etc.