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Saturday, August 9, 2014

Russian Ministry of Health abandon Microsoft and Oracle products and turn to Linux and PostgreSQL

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Russian Ministry of Health abandon Microsoft and Oracle products and turn to Linux and PostgreSQL

The Russian government has announced its intention to replace the Microsoft products and Oracle to Linux and open source, at least in the Ministry of Health.

Russia imposed on a large number of sanctions from the European Union and the United States, and this move is a response to those sanctions. One of those ways is to stop authorities from buying more licenses from Microsoft or stop prolonging the duration.

According to a report posted on the official website gov.cnews.ru of the Russian government, the Ministry of Health intends to relinquish all proprietary software provided by Microsoft and Oracle, to replace them with open source.

Roman Safronov, deputy director of the Department of Information Technology at the Ministry of Health Says that this has actually been planning since 2011 with the creation of the federal services for the unified health information system in the state (EGISZ).

Because many of the deals coming on EGISZ Ltd. and our budget, we decided that we can not afford to pay for a license tens of millions of rubles a year. 

A large part of EGISZ working on open source software, including servers which use unix / linux, and stations Linux terminal, and application software and databases;, as well as the operations center at the Ministry of Health based on open source software. 

The migration to open source after abandoning Microsoft and Oracle, is not something that can be done quickly, but progress in the deportation of those computers to software should wait until 2015.

As for the rest of the government and other ministries, it is unclear whether this step will be implemented in them, too.

* Note: PostgreSQL is a database management system.



     
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