GosLinux implementation turned out to be 37 times cheaper than Windows licenses

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Federal Bailiffs Service (FSSP) announced an estimate of the cost of installing a free GosLinux operating systemin the units of bailiffs in 70 regions of the Russian Federation. Today it is the most successful and large-scale project on the migration of Russian government agencies from Windows to Linux.

So, for 2013-2015, the development, implementation, maintenance, certification, revision and three inspection controls cost 19.155 million rubles (including directly development and certification - 5 million rubles). Another 2 million rubles spent on training administrators. As a result, the cost of one installed version of GosLinux cost less than 1,500 rubles.

For comparison, the cost of licensed Microsoft programs for the same number of computers is 794 million rubles, according to Microsoft partners.

Such figures were named at the workshop on import substitution by the deputy director of the FSSP Tatyana Ignatieva.

“At the moment, GosLinux is installed on 16 thousand workplaces and on 660 servers of the service. By the end of the year due to the fact that we set ourselves the task not only in the form of declarations and goals, but also fixed the decision on our annual board, we are going to bring the implementation rate to 50%, thereby reducing the unit cost of one version to about 800 rubles ", - said Ignatieff.



In the above assessment of the cost of Microsoft products, the cost of a perpetual license for Windows Proffesional 8.1 + Microsoft Office Standart 2013 RUS OLP is calculated. 2500 servers with certification packages.

GosLinux is a free operating system based on CentOS 6.4 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux). The developer of the distribution was Red Soft, which won in March 2013 in the competition for the revision, implementation and maintenance of AIS FSSP subsystems.

Last year, the open repository GosLinux was created , and on August 27, 2015, the system was accepted into the National Fund of Algorithms and Programs . Thus, GosLinux has become the first certified operating system based on free software, suitable for use in all government agencies, state extra-budgetary funds and local governments in Russia.


The operating system of the standard distribution kit of the AIS FSSP of Russia has received the certificate of conformity of the FSTEC of Russia No. 3119, confirming that the operating system of the standard distribution kit has an estimated level of trust in EAL3 and meets the requirements for level 4 of the lack of undeclared capabilities.

GosLinux is free. Over the past 30 days, the distribution has downloaded 1061 times , including yesterday - 84 times.