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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Russia : 110 thousand dollars to those who penetrate the TOR network

The Russian Interior Ministry substantial offers financial reward, 110 thousand dollars to anyone who could penetrate the network or the program known as the famous Tor to encrypt and hide your identity on the Internet; so as to eliminate the identities of network users of Tor.

Saying that the goal of this command is : "to ensure the country's security and defense."

The contest is open only to the Russians, and applicants need to pay about 5480 dollars to provide for the contest, which is open until 20 August

Earlier this month, the Council of the Russian parliament, the law firms are obliged to contact store personal data of users Russians in the country.

According to the Guardian, the more Russia is the fifth country in terms of the use of the Tor, with the presence of more than 210 thousand people actually benefit from the service, they are anyway growing steadily.

Tor is developed by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the U.S. Navy, then became widespread globally purpose of concealing identity, and relies on a network of thousands of volunteers around the world who are turning to their computers relays to pass confidential data encrypted through.

And is being used by journalists and the enforcement officers is legal or positive things, but it can also be used for the purposes of illegal and unethical and negative exist in the "deep web \ dark  network", and that there is no room for expansion where in this article, but you can read about here.

To follow up, the Ministry of Defence in 2013 and it is still one of the biggest supporters of the development kit Tor, those developers who are considered independent research center is a nonprofit, and who keep the tools used to allow all access to the Tor.

In addition, it is mentioned that the leaked documents by the "Edward Snowden" published, explained that the NSA "National Security Agency" unable to break through the Tor network or spy on the users of the network.

     

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