1. NE-Asia OSS trends 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

2. NE-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)
Government promotion of Linux/OSS
05/11/08
Hiroshi Miura, KIC/NTTDATA

3. Hiroshi Miura, KIC/NTTDATA
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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Hiroshi Miura, KIC/NTTDATA

4. Hiroshi Miura, KIC/NTTDATA
Future OSS technology
To use on the field of consumer market(Desktop), commodity and mature software is needed.
Open standard is key issue on this situation.
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.
05/11/08
Hiroshi Miura, KIC/NTTDATA