Huawei will boost investment in operating systems

The success story of the HarmonyOS and OpenEuler operating systems needs no introduction and Huawei has now promised to boost investment in the operating system market more than ever.

Wang Tao, Executive Director of Huawei and Director of the ICT Infrastructure Business Management Committee attended China’s Operating System Industry Summit, saying that his company will increase investment in research and development of operating systems in various fields.

At the event, Tao delivered a speech entitled “Aggregate Root Technology, Open Source and Build a Prosperous Ecosystem of Basic Software”.

HarmonyOS:

This year, Huawei achieved over 320 million installations for HarmonyOS on its own devices and over 250 million unit installations of HarmonyOS Connect on third-party devices.

Euler:

OpenEuler is another example of excellence for Huawei in the operating system industry, as this new software recently reached over 3 million installations in service systems, account around 25% of the overall Chinese server market.

Tao’s vision for industry:

The Huawei official said the rise of the digital economy requires root-level development of the strong basic software industry.

Therefore, Huawei has a full range of ICT filed products. To make them, Huawei has accumulated basic software technologies and deployed them including operating systems, databases, AI frameworks, programming languages, and compilers.

Tao said Huawei will further increase the R&D investment to enhance the innovation and competitiveness of basic software to support the construction of digital infrastructure and improve the application ecosystem for products.

He also shared Huawei’s approach toward open-source software technologies. Huawei has applied its own software as Euler and HarmonyOS and donated them to OpenAtom Foundation.

The company promised that it will also invest to construct these two operating systems by embracing further the operating source community.

Tao also emphasized the importance of a large and quality app ecosystem, which is a key progress-maker for any operating system.

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