Rosseti transfers 6,500 employees to Russian Linux

Rosseti Siberia is transferring 6,500 employees to Russian Linux. The corresponding tender became known in early September 2023.

As CNews writes with reference to materials on the public procurement website, Rosseti Siberia will purchase perpetual licenses of the Alt Workstation OS and technical support certificates for 12 months. Rosseti Siberia explains the pre-selected Alt OS by the fact that the company already uses this operating system, and therefore offers of products of another trademark are not allowed, the terms of reference for the competition says.

Rosseti-Siberia company transfers 6,500 employees to Russian Linux

It also reports that the OS should be included in the register, and ON Ministry of Digital Development its copyright holder should have its own full-cycle development infrastructure, registered and located on the territory. Russia The OS will be installed on computers with i586 and x86-64 architecture, the system must support AMD Zen 3, Intel Rocket Lake and Alder Lake processors, as well as Intel Gen12/Xe graphics. The company notes that the OS is purchased to fulfill the requirement of the preferential use (import substitution) of domestic OS, as well as to ensure the requirements for. information security

It is expected that Russian operating systems will replace Windows. As the newspaper notes, Rosseti were in the Russian Federation one of the largest state customers of various Microsoft software. So, in 2016, Rosseti announced a tender with an initial contract price of 2.1 billion rubles for the purchase of Microsoft products. This is one of the largest purchases of specific Microsoft products for companies with state participation, and in 2019, the electric network operator again announced a tender for the purchase of Microsoft software for 1.85 billion rubles. The rights granted by the executors to Microsoft software expired on September 30, 2022.^[1]

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