1. VIETNAMESE FOSS MARKET
TREND & OPPORTUNITIES
EUROPEAN COMMISSION, OCTOBER 2013
VO THAI LAM
CEO of Lactien JSC
vothailam@lactien.com
Vietnam Free and Open Source Software Association

2. Content
Report from VAIP (Vietnam Association for Information
Processing)
Some good News
Top FOSS Trends from 2014 to 2016
Opportunities
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3. REPORT FROM VAIP
Ministries & Equivalent
No
CRITERIA
RESULT (%)
2012
2011
2010
Human resources
1
Percentage of Specialist Officers trained
86.2
76.7
2
Percentage of Specialist Officers using FOSS in 85.8
their daily work
79.8
3
Percentage of Officers trained
52.5
64.5
17.4
52.0
Policy for FOSS Adoption
1
Percentage of ministry that have policy for foss
adoption
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4. REPORT FROM VAIP
Ministries & Equivalent
No
CRITERIA
RESULT (%)
FOSS Adoption
2012
2011
A
FOSS Implemention in normal units
1
Percentage of using
OpenOffice/LibreOffice
25.6
25.9
2
Percentage of using Thunderbird
21.1
21.5
3
Percentage of using Firefox
84.6
82.4
4
Percentage of using Unikey
96.7
97.3
5
Percentage of FOSS OS installed in PCs
10.8
6
Percentage of FOSS OS installed in
Servers
2010
19.6
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5. REPORT FROM VAIP
Ministries & Equivalent
No
CRITERIA
RESULT (%)
FOSS Adoption
2012
2011
B
FOSS Implemention in IT units
1
Percentage of using
OpenOffice/LibreOffice
44.5
35.4
2
Percentage of using Thunderbird
45.0
28.1
3
Percentage of using Firefox
93.3
88.5
4
Percentage of using Unikey
96.7
2010
97.3
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6. REPORT FROM VAIP
Provinces
No
CRITERIA
RESULT (%)
2012
2011
2010
Human resources
1
Percentage of Specialist Officers trained
94.4
89.1
2
Percentage of Officers trained
28.8
14.7
36.5
55.6
Policy for FOSS Adoption
1
Percentage of provinces that have policy for
foss adoption
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7. REPORT FROM VAIP
Provinces
No
CRITERIA
RESULT (%)
FOSS Adoption
2012
2011
A
FOSS Implemention in normal units
1
Percentage of using OpenOffice/LibreOffice
38.1
30.7
2
Percentage of using Thunderbird
32.6
27.9
3
Percentage of using Firefox
84.3
66.9
4
Percentage of using Unikey
94.4
87.5
5
Percentage of FOSS OS installed in PCs
16.2
6
Percentage of FOSS OS installed in Servers
2010
19.4
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8. REPORT FROM VAIP
Provinces
No
CRITERIA
RESULT (%)
FOSS Adoption
2012
2011
B
FOSS Implemention in IT units
1
Percentage of using OpenOffice/LibreOffice
82.6
83.3
2
Percentage of using Thunderbird
74.3
75.3
3
Percentage of using Firefox
95.5
94.9
4
Percentage of using Unikey
99.2
98.8
5
Percentage of FOSS OS installed in PCs
46.4
6
Percentage of FOSS OS installed in Servers
2010
39.2
Portal
1
Using FOSS solution
33.3
2
Using non-FOSS solution
66.7
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9. SOME GOOD NEWS
From Gov: at the end of 2012, Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh and
Ha Noi shift to using open source software for Goverment.
From Enterprise, Viettel, one of Vietnamese biggest
companies
7952/21058 PCs using Ubuntu only.
100% branches using Zentyal, a UC solution.
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10. TOP TRENDS USING FOSS IN VIETNAM
NEXT 3 YEARS
FOSS market in Public sector expandsion.
The first reason for using foss is freedom from vendor lock in.
Lot of FOSS solutions will be used, cause of security
reason.
All-in-one ages and everything in a box
More and more PCs will be installed FOSS, exp in Gov
agencies
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11. OPPORTUNITIES
Customize FOSS solutions for Public Administration
Services (liferay, alfresco, drupal..)
Building a services pro firm for FOSS support
Integrating software , hardware in a box and sell it
(Zentyal, pfsense, Big Blue Button..)
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