Russia - Linux over Windows!

What your Business can learn from Russia – looking at this sentence the first thing that cropped up to my mind was – Is Russia the world leader in Business strategies now? But later reading at the article it made me feel that leaders are made with thought provoking moves. 

This is all about Russia’s move to build its own national software system based on Linux and not on Windows. First point that I would agree is “Linux is free”. Flexibility, security, reliability are also the major points that every Business would like to keep stable every minute of their existence. The bold move of setting aside 150 million rubles for building the software system on Linux that is open to all and to which updates are created almost every day with new applications and sidelining Windows across the entire nation is really something to be looked at.

Linux gives the flexibility for an individual to change the source code and add as many features as you want but of course this is dependent on the level of programming one has. I do not doubt this would be an issue as we see how many are into hard core programming nowadays. This move would be very beneficial for companies that still use older hardware on their computer as Linux would run on even the NT series desktops.

According to a recent study, Linux is highly preferred than Windows nowadays mainly because of the creative involvement of different companies for its development and help and support provided by these companies. If this is followed by every other nation now, I think there won’t be a day far away when Windows will be planning to create open source software and attract its once loyal customers back.