reasoning on the topic
Speaking “on topic”, we need to remember the basics of economics. The part where they talk about R&D costs, sales markets, marketing, payback, profitability, depreciation periods. Then you can and should remember about production chains, product life cycle, production management methods, and so on, right up to personnel management methods, starting with old man Taylor and ending Kurt Lewin's change modelsmeared on the drum – Drum Buffer Rope (DBR) on top DMAIC.
Let's start, for example, with R&D.
To engage in replacement of anything, you need, at least in general terms, to imagine what you are dealing with. If we are talking about import substitution in IT, then at least imagine how basic things work outside of a school textbook on electricity – where there is a plus, a minus, and some lonely transistor. In modern physics, everything is somewhat more complicated.
In order to do this in IT, you will first have to find out that the operating logic of the same x86/64 is covered with such layers of legacy that it is no longer very obvious whether “this” can be called x86, or whether it is already emulation inside the simulation.
Which leads to simple numbers:
In a Nutshell, KVM…has had 27,602 commits made by 1,123 contributors representing 668,299 lines of code
In a Nutshell, Linux Kernel… has had 1,295,510 commits made by 28,762 contributors representing 35,898,676 lines of code
That is, to talk about some kind of “replacement”, you just need to take at least 1-10% of the existing developers somewhere, and keep them busy for just a couple of years.
Maybe? With certain reservations:
Kernel 4.9.170, diff ∼ 50 MB:
3296 files changed, 1463488 insertions(+),
4390 deletions(-)
Free Software Porting on the Elbrus Architecture, 2019
But still, most of the “replacement” is not a replacement as such, but falls into the category “we don’t look here, we pretend that it’s different.”
Why is this so? Yes, all for the same reason.
You can copy the solution of a problem from an excellent student, but you will not be able to solve the same problem yourself.
You can take the source code of even the kernel, or any open library, but if you only see the solution, if you don’t have your own RnD (Research and Development), then you simply won’t understand why the code is done this way. At the exit, after skillful “refinement”, there will be the same thing: fruit – fruit, flower – flower.
And in general, this whole bitter cataclysm that I am observing here… and Vladimir Nikolaich too is no secret to anyone:
On September 19, 2024, Deputy Director of the Federal Service for Technical and Export Control (FSTEC) Vitaly Lyutikov told the media that the department considers the cost of Russian software very high.
According to Lyutikov, “Russian manufacturers, seeing the demand for their goods, raised prices tenfold.” However, he noted, the quality of domestic software is worse than that of foreign analogues, and prices are higher
Or:
newspaper Vedomosti, citing the results of a study by analysts of the Trust Technologies company (Tedo, former PwC), previously reported a deep crisis on this issue. The largest domestic enterprises gradually began to realize the difficulty of replacing equipment suppliers and finding analogues from Russian manufacturers.
Maybe let's look a little more broadly? What about the iron?
If you look a little more broadly, at “all IT”, then from the hardware production chain “from silicon to the crystal already in the case” – in the Russian Federation there is:
Belarusian 350 Nm steppers from Planar – The long journey of a microprocessor to the market or learning to read news about Russian lithographs
silicon of metallurgical purity, unpurified gases (purely suffocating) – Russian microelectronics – two years later,
and a little crumble. On the last point, I note that full of impotent anger Report of the Royal United Services Institute, RUSI report of Silicon Lifeline: Western Electronics At The Heart Of Russia's War Machine for some reason is not yet prohibited from mentioning, what do you call it: stupidity or treason?
But this is what we have now, but what about the future, what about the quality of education in the Russian Federation? After all, children are good children!
What serious school problems are currently being discussed in all Russian news?
The fact that children run around in a cat mask.
Has anyone seen this live, or is this the same case as with PMC Redan, by the way, what’s wrong with them, they are definitely more dangerous than the cases in Korkino, Tula and Aksai district, Rostov region?
There are no other problems.
In the chain of school education – institute – graduate school – R&D – production – exploitation, for many years high-quality school and vocational education in itself has been thrown out, by reducing salaries to below “average”, and by telling stories that it is a duty, an honor and conscience. This is not news – Education in the Russian Federation is redundant.
Now the separation of religion from study has been thrown out, and in general, shame is not smoke – it does not eat your eyes, as the great Russian pre-Carbon classic German Azizovich Sharaban-Mukhlyuev wrote.
What is the output from such an input? SI-SO?
The output is articles like Comparison of fault-tolerant storage architecture for virtualization in pictures. What is remarkable about it is not even the content itself; it is useless to comment on it.
Further lines “We will consider solutions such as VMFS, LVM, vSAN“, it’s still impossible to read it without laughing, because next comes the section Classic storage systems (SDS) 1. VMFS from VMware
You don't have to read the rest. The author comes up with entities that are not in the documentation (DLH), it is not clear – out of laziness or because he heard something about Distributed Lock Manager (DLM), but did not read about VMFS Locking Mechanisms.
The author is confusing ESA with OSA.
And, of course, how could we not do without comments to such an article, more typical of coproblogs:
“Great article!” (the author has 16 comments since 2011) and
“interesting article, thank you” – from a participant who registered on October 16, 4 comments, 2 of them to the specified article.
What’s curious is not even that these import-substituting poverty-related agents don’t have their own blog,
and not that the author is not shy about writing about himself in his profile as “an expert in the implementation of IT infrastructure systems,” and not that the article scored +4 characteristic of coproblogs,
but the very fact of its existence.
Required Note
The platform itself – R-Virtualization and R-Storage is not so bad. At least the documentation says about the need for testing and the verification methodology, quote:
Checking the data flush to disk (page 13). At this step, you need to ensure that all storage devices (hard drives, solid state drives, RAID arrays, etc.) that will be included in the cluster can flush data to disk in the event of a server power failure
At least that way. Work with 2016 years – but can't decide:
V.R.: Rosplatform is a company with 100 percent Russian ownership. This is not a “daughter” of Parallels and Virtuozzo, as some media write, but an independent developer
And at the same time, on the official website:
Company specialists known today as Rosplatform“, since the early 2000s, such software has been developed and exported under the Parallels brand.
Afterword
While this whole crumpled article was being written, our neural network received a fragment of the first chapter of a book about dog breeding from the great Russian pre-carbon classic German Azizovich Sharaban-Mukhlyuev:
But then again this evil, painful nonsense: supposedly there is no connection on the tanks exactly like at the Kursk Bulge, the barrels are worn out like in the Crimean War, and the last left-hander was again brought to the grave (only he did not shoe fleas, and out of three Chinese ones he made one like ours , because with technology of seven nanometers it is difficult to do otherwise in a dugout).
I heard something like one such left-hander screaming wolf, wolf, drones, chargers, walkie-talkie on an armored train for a long time, and then left this lot of sorrow. We can say that this worthless note is dedicated to the memory of his struggle.
