(After viewing things) After Hongmeng, what does it mean for Huawei to donate the "Oula" operating system?
China News Service, Beijing, November 12th, title: After Hongmeng, what does it mean for Huawei to donate the "Oula" operating system?
China News Agency reporter Liu Yuying
Huawei donated the "Oula" open source operating system to the Open Atom Open Source Foundation this week.
This is after Hongmeng, Huawei once again took an important step in the operating system.
Why is Euler important?
As basic software, in the decades of development of information technology, different operating systems have been formed in different fields, such as server operating systems, PC desktop operating systems, smartphone operating systems, IoT operating systems, and embedded operating systems for communication devices , The cloud operating system of the public cloud, the embedded operating system of industrial equipment, etc., software and hardware technology is difficult to realize the sharing, resulting in "chimneys" within and between industries.
The new Euler open source operating system released by Huawei in 2019 aims to solve the problem of collaboration.
Deng Taihua, Vice President of Huawei and President of Computing Product Line, introduced that Euler is an operating system for all scenarios of infrastructure. It supports diverse devices in the south direction and covers all scenarios in the north direction. It connects with Hongmeng horizontally and realizes ecological interoperability through capability sharing.
The so-called multi-device means that Euler can be widely deployed in various device forms such as servers, cloud computing, edge computing, and embedded devices.
The scene covers IT (information technology), CT (communication technology), and OT (operation technology).
Euler can also have a synergistic effect with Hongmeng.
For example, in industrial scenarios, Euler is suitable for high-reliability and strong deterministic industrial equipment, Hongmeng is suitable for industrial terminals with strong interaction, and Euler and Hongmeng can better provide full-stack industrial scene-based solutions.
Yang Tao, chairman of the Open Atom Open Source Foundation, said that in the future, the collaboration of end, edge, and cloud will become more and more important.
With the continuous collaboration of several major operating systems, a very large era of innovation will be opened.
China vigorously develops open source industry
The Open Atom Open Source Foundation is the first open source foundation in China. It has been in operation for more than a year and has absorbed more than a dozen important open source projects from leading domestic companies.
Currently, global open source projects basically cover mainstream technical fields.
Open source has become an important means of establishing a technology ecosystem. In order to create a new technology ecosystem, almost all of them will be done in an open source way.
Deng Taihua said that the basic capabilities of China's open source system still lag far behind the leading countries.
However, China has the largest open source application market, with the most supply of software talents, and China has the best conditions to become an open source power.
Liao Xiangke, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, believes that open source is an important way to develop basic software such as operating systems.
At present, a large number of domestic operating systems are based on the secondary development of foreign upstream open source communities, and a large number of software developers contribute to foreign open source communities. Therefore, there is an urgent need to build open source communities rooted in China.
As the global computing industry ushered in a golden decade of architectural innovation, from the past Intel and AMD-led general computing into the era of artificial intelligence, the diversification of artificial intelligence chips, China is ushering in the creation of a domestic operating system ecosystem "Golden Window".
Wang Zhijun, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that Euler, this heavyweight open source project in the field of operating systems donated to the foundation for incubation, is an opportunity for China to seize the development of the Internet of Everything era and use open source as a starting point to create next-generation operations. System, a beneficial attempt to build a "digital base" for economic and social development.
Huawei builds a digital economy ecological base
The development of the digital economy requires the foundation of basic software.
Deng Taihua said that prior to the ecological construction of communications computing, artificial intelligence, and basic software and hardware, American companies were relatively leading.
With the development of the digital economy in the future, the development of China's IT industry must take root and have its own basic software and hardware platform.
Since the open source of the Euler system, it has received positive responses from the industry.
According to reports, more than 300 companies and nearly 10,000 community developers have joined, making it the most dynamic open source community in China.
More than 10 partners such as Kylin Software have launched server operating systems based on Euler, and have entered government, operators, finance, power and other industries, achieving more than 600,000 large-scale commercial applications.
At present, China's three major telecom operators are all supporting "Euler."
China Telecom is the first company in the telecommunications industry to choose Euler's technical route for its full service. At the same time, it is the first operator to launch a dual version of x86 and ARM based on Euler's independent research and development, and it has achieved large-scale commercial use.
Huawei donated Euler to transform Euler's open source model from an enterprise-led model to a model of joint participation by industry partners. The most important task facing the future is still ecological construction.
Huawei's operating system for connectivity, computing and cloud services-related businesses will fully adopt Euler's technical route.
Huawei will create its own operating system version and promise not to make a commercial release of Euler.
China's basic software is weak and requires huge investment.
Deng Taihua said that the donation is only the beginning. In the future, it will continue to increase investment in technological innovation, talent training, and ecological construction, and plans to establish the Euler Eco-Innovation Center to provide partners with platform, technology, capital and policy support.
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