Approved list of Russian software, mandatory for public procurement

The state register of domestic software, mandatory for purchases by government agencies, will work in the coming days. On February 18, a list of about 80 programs was approved, which will be included there, RBC news agency reported , citing several sources in the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media. At this point, more than 700 applications have been submitted for inclusion in the registry, and in total it will contain information about several thousand programs.

At this moment there are only three programs in the registry , but very soon it will be replenished and we will find out which developers were lucky to get there.

According to the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media , government departments annually purchase programs for 80 billion rubles. In 2014, SAP products most often bought - 5.6 billion rubles. The following in the list of Oracle and 4.6 billion rubles. Microsoft programs were purchased at 3.05 billion rubles.
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The share of import of client and mobile OS is 95%, server OS - 75%, database management systems - 86%, cloud infrastructure and virtualization management tools - 93%, and custom office software - 97%.

“In the coming days, we are waiting for the roster replenishment, after which it will become a real working tool: Russian systems will appear in many classes of software products,” said Yevgenia Vasilenko, executive director of the Association of Russian Software (unites more than 100 software manufacturers). The meeting participants reviewed applications for the inclusion in the register of products of such companies as 1C-Bitrix, ABBYY, Doctor Web, New Cloud Technologies, 1C, Raidix, and others.

The general director of Alt Linux, the developer of operating systems, spoke about the procedure for updating the registry. He says that the formal signs of the developer (country of origin) are checked first, and then the experts make their final opinion.

The registry of domestic software did not work in due time. The newspaper Kommersant writes that the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media did not publish on time the sub-laws regulating the fulfillment of the requirements of the government decree signed by the Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on November 16, 2015.