Gazprom acquires licenses for the Russian Red OS for hundreds of millions of rubles

On April 9, 2024, it became known that Gazprom, as part of the import substitution program, acquired 134 thousand licenses for the Red OS operating system for servers and workstations. This software platform developed in Red Software will replace Windows in the IT infrastructure of the Russian energy company.

According to the Vedomosti newspaper, Rustam Rustamov, deputy general director of Red Software, spoke about the large-scale purchase. According to him, the transition of Gazprom to the domestic OS is one of the stages of the implementation of the centralized infrastructure management system of the Red ADM industrial edition 1.1 enterprise. In addition to the OS, this complex includes file storage, which provides access to shared files and folders. Another component is the centralized installation subsystem, which provides the ability to massively deploy operating systems in the enterprise.

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Rustamov said that the introduction of Red ADM into Gazprom's IT loop made it possible "to create an infrastructure that allows both Microsoft and Red Software products to be used simultaneously." The cost of licenses acquired by Gazprom for Red OS as of early April 2024 was not officially disclosed. According to Vedomosti estimates, we can talk about an amount exceeding 600 million rubles. At the same time, a representative of Red Software said that by September 2024, Gazprom plans to transfer more than 3,000 more workstations in Lakhta Center from Windows to the Russian operating system.

Thus, by April 2024, the purchase of Gazprom is one of the largest contracts in Russia for the transfer of the enterprise's IT infrastructure to domestic software. In the fall of 2023, Rosseti announced the acquisition of more than 100 thousand licenses of the Alt OS manufactured by BASEALT^[1]

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