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Russian developers have asked the state for a billion on the creation of competitors iOS and Windows

The Russian company approached the Ministry of communications for government support for the development of competitive SOFTWARE. They want to produce unique national software and claim to 1 billion rubles each.

Several domestic companies have applied to the Ministry of communications for government support for software development. According to one source, all applications submitted within the framework approved in April plan of the Ministry of communications on import substitution. According to the document, the national development need to be in place in 14 segments of the Russian market of software. In 5 segments of the industry today, there are no competitive domestic developments, therefore, to create the necessary products to the Russian developers need support from the state.

According to the Minister of communications Nikolay Nikiforov, including mobile, client and server operating systems, database management system (DBMS), office software and cloud technologies. At present, the share of imported software in these segments reaches 95%, but according to the plan of the Ministry by 2025 it should be reduced to 50%.

A source in the government told this resource that this list was finally formed after the failure of a number of Western suppliers of software to disclose the source codes of their products. According to the source, among refused — Apple, SAP, Oracle, Cisco and others.

Now the Agency has announced its willingness to provide support to domestic producers. “Initially, this information was disseminated by industry organizations and market participants have joined forces to create a competitive product,” said CEO “Alt Linux” Alexey Smirnov. His company filed a joint with “NTC it Rosa” a request for the server OS. In this case, only the application contains about 20 organizations, including manufacturers of processors “Baikal” and “Elbrus”. The ultimate goal will be the creation of the product, primarily in demand in the corporate market.

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Applied for the development of domestic DBMS company “Postgres professional” also decided to join efforts with a number of industry players. In the creation of this product will also participate MSU, psi RAS, concern Rosatom, “1C”, “Diasoft”, the same “Alt Linux” and “NTC it Rosa”. The company is already engaged in creating the PostgreSQL DBMS.

However, the expert stressed that the domestic OS should be created in a relatively short period of time, because it is in these areas today, a major technological progress.

In parallel, the Ministry of communications attended to and the problem of domestic mobile OS.
A few months ago the Minister together with representatives of the industry met with the developers of the mobile platform, Samsung Tizen, but the Minister, according to rumors, disappointed in the lack of integration of Android apps.

Last week Nikiforov had another meeting with the team of ex-Nokia employees, who through promoting their own company Jolla Sailfish OS. In 2013, the Finns chose Yandex.Store as the app store for they produce smartphones and tablets, and some time ago a co-owner Jolla became the owner of the company unified social tax Grigory Berezkin. According to a source familiar with the situation, this businessman can take on the initial costs of establishing domestic mobile OS based on the Sailfish.

Experts believe this approach is strange and unreasonable: “it would be Much more logical to base the Android platform as it is done by developers around the world. This approach ensures compatibility for most applications, because Android has 80% of the gadgets in the world.”

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