Rosseti purchased 100 thousand licenses of the Russian OS for 752 million rubles

On February 15, 2024, it became known that one of the world's largest electric grid holdings, Rosseti, purchased over 100 thousand licenses for Russian operating systems of BASEALT. The software was delivered as part of a tender worth 752.4 million rubles.

It is noted that the purchase was carried out on the basis of technical requirements that were developed as a result of comparative tests of the OS of various suppliers and included the entire set of necessary functionality. Rosseti has acquired over 97 thousand licenses for the Alt Workstation OS and approximately 3 thousand licenses for the Alt Server platform. The software will be delivered to 20 regional branches of the electric grid holding. In addition, under the terms of the agreement, BASEALT will train the customer's IT specialists.

source = Rosseti

The infrastructure of the power grid company is divided into two circuits - office and technological. The first is almost completely translated into Alt OS, while the second uses many OSs from different suppliers, including those designed for highly specialized tasks. Rosseti notes that the introduction of the Russian OS lays the foundation for the qualitative provision of technological sovereignty of such a strategically important industry as power. The Group purchases software from the unified register of Russian programs as part of the import substitution program and digital transformation strategy.

The Vedomosti newspaper adds that at the end of 2023, Rosseti held three more tenders for the purchase of software - an office suite worth 1.5 billion rubles, a postal system worth 1.3 billion rubles and communication software totaling 456 million rubles. According to available information, the choice fell the products "P7-Office," the mail service of the company "MyOffice" and the messenger VK.^[1]

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