Foreign capital into the market of domestic China vied for Linux plots.

In August 15th, with "enterprise Linux application" as the theme of the 2006 LinuxWorld China kicked off. In this China open-source software annual event, red flag, the soft, Kaiyuan, red branch TurboLinux, Chinese 2000 almost all the major domestic Linux companies have collective absence.

On the contrary, the world's second largest manufacturer of Linux Novell not only in the conference officially launched the open system platform SUSE Linux Enterprise a new generation of 10, the general manager of East Asia Zhang Xianmin is a high-profile announcement, Novell Chinese will increase investment in the market, in fiscal year 2007 to get Chinese Linux desktop operating system market share of the first.

The domestic Linux plots.

"The key stage show, brand promotion is not our present stage." A senior Linux executives to reporters to explain why they do not go to the participants. He said the company is an urgent need to solve the problem is not enough funds, technology is not strong, the application is out of line, and to participate in a LinuxWorld China does not help.

"In an instant, the domestic Linux in one way or another to accept support has been six years, but the results of how obvious to people." The source lamented that China's Linux industry is still facing the problem of hollowing out technology, and began to face huge pressure from foreign Linux vendors invasion.

Over the years, most of the domestic Linux enterprises in China and some of the application development, has not been able to enter the Linux system kernel development." CSDN Chinese software development network Zou Zhen told reporters, even if there is a new technology in the network application and security detection, localization and other aspects, but some companies are considering their own interests rather than the completely open source code, which can promote the sustainable development of the new technology.

Today, the official release of the international Linux kernel file, there is no line of code developed by the Chinese people." Red flag is also a deep concern for the government, the government can not support this industry for a lifetime, in the presence of foreign investors in the core technology, we only have some of the advantages of localization is not enough to fight."

Along with the involvement of Novell and RedHat, the two largest international vendors in the open source software market, the inherent pattern of the domestic market has been broken, the entire open source operating system market competition intensifies." Senior members of the country's main Linux company said that in the past every manufacturer has a private plots, the foreign market is foreign company land; large projects of government and state-owned enterprises are the soft and red flag grasp, and electric power and railway industry market is TurboLinux territory.

The red flag is also a senior admit, from product maturity, market strength, R & D investment perspective, there are RedHat, Novell and other international manufacturers of obvious advantages, industry policy and the red flag and other domestic manufacturers are mainly confined to the domestic market, from international companies indeed there is a big gap.

IDC last year, a report shows that the Chinese market to return to only a year of Novell, with a 32.9% market share, the first shipment of 30% of China's Linux server operating system market. Foreign Linux joint PC giant

IDC report shows that in 2005 China's Linux market revenue of $11 million 800 thousand, an increase of 27.1% over the previous year. IDC predicts that from 2006 to 2010, China's Linux market will grow at an annual CAGR of 34%, to $51 million 100 thousand by 2010.

The face of China's huge growth in the Linux market space to Novell as the representative of the international Linux giant, is struggling to cross the software procurement policy barriers, expect huge Linux market in China can have more gains.

Zhang Xianmin said that in the past Chinese, mainly due to the Linux desktop application in support of government procurement, which is the domestic Linux manufacturers plots, international manufacturers have been rarely involved in. "But this year with the adjustment policy, this pattern is quite distinct from each other may be broken, Novell has done the domestic share of the first in the server, the desktop also have the same ambition."

"We expect that by 2007 China's PC market sales will exceed 30 million units, even if only accounted for about 10% of the pre installed software share, Linux operating system is also a huge market." Zhang Xianmin said that the United States has a 70% home ownership rate of PC, while China currently has only about 4% of households with PC.

According to insiders, Novell, including Lenovo, HP, DELL, including almost all of the first line of international PC manufacturers have begun to discuss the pre installed with Novell. The Novell will also invest $100 million in China, including the world's fourth major R & D centers to build a series of desktop market development facilities and teams.

DELL PowerEdge server global marketing director Japak recently said publicly that the sales of DELL computer products, including pre installed Linux operating system products have accounted for 1/4 of total sales, the next DELL also intends to Novell's new SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 as the preferred product sales.

Government support to increase

Whether it is technology or market encounter difficulties, these are only temporary." Facing the present situation of domestic Linux industry, the domestic Linux industry urged, China Academy of engineering, Ni Guangnan insisted that only intensify the development of open source software represented by Linux, in order to truly promote the independent innovation of the software industry, the formation of China independent software industry system.

Ni Guangnan at LinuxWorld China Conference