In the third reading, a law on import substitution of software was adopted.
On June 19, the State Duma passed a bill on import substitution of software in the third reading. From January 1, 2016, government customers must justify the choice of foreign products instead of domestic counterparts. The law will apply only to state bodies.
Initially, it was proposed that the state corporation be subordinate to the law on import substitution. However, they are not mentioned in the final version of the law. Another bill is being prepared for state corporations, explained the executive director of the Otechestvenniy Soft association , Evgenia Vasilenko.
The ban on government procurement of foreign software does provide for exceptions: there are no programs of the required class in the registry; There are programs, but they are not suitable for technical specifications; information about such software or procurement is a state secret.
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According to Vasilenko, Russian customers often buy imported software out of habit, without thinking about its quality. The mechanism for coordinating such procurement with management is also familiar and streamlined. It also often turns out that customers are unaware of the existence of domestic counterparts. The problem is their small share in the Russian market and weak marketing policy.
Igor Bogachev, vice president of the Skolkovo IT cluster and former director general of SAP CIS, believes that foreign software vendors that are not business critical will be banned. Such software is, for example, Microsoft office suite. And software products from Oracle and SAP will be difficult to replace.
If the new law is implemented, the three companies listed above may lose from 10 to 30% of their annual sales in the public sector, Chairman of the League of Independent IT Experts Sergey Karelov estimates. They account for more than half of public procurement. In general, government customers are currently purchasing software from 20 large foreign vendors.
Domestic developers are helped not so much by the law as by the discussion about import substitution itself. A year ago, state clients rarely considered 1C-Bitrix products , preferring Western counterparts, and now 1C-Bitrix even opened a department for working with such clients, 1C-Bitrix CEO Sergey Ryzhikov told Vedomosti.
According to Natalia Kasperskaya, Director General of the InfoWatch group of companies and Sergey Kalin, President of the Open Technologies Foundation, the new law will help domestic companies like 1C , Dr. Web , Entensys , Kaspersky Lab , InfoWatch , Ascon .
Initially, it was proposed that the state corporation be subordinate to the law on import substitution. However, they are not mentioned in the final version of the law. Another bill is being prepared for state corporations, explained the executive director of the Otechestvenniy Soft association , Evgenia Vasilenko.
The ban on government procurement of foreign software does provide for exceptions: there are no programs of the required class in the registry; There are programs, but they are not suitable for technical specifications; information about such software or procurement is a state secret.
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According to Vasilenko, Russian customers often buy imported software out of habit, without thinking about its quality. The mechanism for coordinating such procurement with management is also familiar and streamlined. It also often turns out that customers are unaware of the existence of domestic counterparts. The problem is their small share in the Russian market and weak marketing policy.
Igor Bogachev, vice president of the Skolkovo IT cluster and former director general of SAP CIS, believes that foreign software vendors that are not business critical will be banned. Such software is, for example, Microsoft office suite. And software products from Oracle and SAP will be difficult to replace.
If the new law is implemented, the three companies listed above may lose from 10 to 30% of their annual sales in the public sector, Chairman of the League of Independent IT Experts Sergey Karelov estimates. They account for more than half of public procurement. In general, government customers are currently purchasing software from 20 large foreign vendors.
Domestic developers are helped not so much by the law as by the discussion about import substitution itself. A year ago, state clients rarely considered 1C-Bitrix products , preferring Western counterparts, and now 1C-Bitrix even opened a department for working with such clients, 1C-Bitrix CEO Sergey Ryzhikov told Vedomosti.
According to Natalia Kasperskaya, Director General of the InfoWatch group of companies and Sergey Kalin, President of the Open Technologies Foundation, the new law will help domestic companies like 1C , Dr. Web , Entensys , Kaspersky Lab , InfoWatch , Ascon .
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/291798/
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