Posts tagged with "Linux"
Monday, 5. January 2009, 06:10:11
Diary, market, fun, Windows
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Well-known IT columnist John Dvorak for a few days ago in 2009 the IT market forecast trends, forecasts and other difference is that, John Dvorak's forecast is "in 2009 can not happen 10 IT events":
1. Sony PS3 can not recover
2. Microsoft Windows Vista will not improve the reputation of
3. China, India or Russia can not be introduced with Intel and AMD microprocessors match
4. Apple can not afford to launch a cool new products
5. Linux desktop in the future may be the key to the market, but not in 2009
6. PC security issues are still not improve
7. In the broadband market, the United States still can not keep up with other countries
8. Tablet PC does not have as much
9.2009 end of the year, technology companies will not be lower than the current share price level
10.2009, "10 ** forecast," will not stop
Wednesday, 24. December 2008, 08:44:36
news, Linux, Windows, market
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ASUS Eee PC in the driven, Linux system from October 2007 to April 2008 period of six months, more than occupy a dominant position.
Recent estimates show that by the end of 2008 deadline for the release of various Linux operating system accounted for about three percent of the notebook market share, while Windows XP is no suspense to hold the other 70 per cent of the share.
Linux notebooks this year, the total sales of 450 million units and windows XP The total notebook sales to Taiwan is as high as 10,500,000. Since April this year, the notebook version of Windows for the first time since the conservative estimate that about 81% of Internet sales in the city before the pre-installed Windows XP operating system. This can linux notebook market share will shrink as Windows will also be a strong penetration and the gradual loss of market share.
Linux is no longer in the notebook market, there are too many opportunities for linux, if at the end of next year to maintain the single-digit market share of the Internet is very bad. And even worse is that this little market share over time will gradually reduce.
Friday, 19. December 2008, 06:33:18
Computer, market, fun, Linux
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As the market for computers, software and services showed consumer spending fell for the first time in six years, IBM, Sun Microsystems, SAP and the three companies next year may be subjected to the most serious impact of the three technology companies.
Developed market consumption expenditures fell 8 percent next year, the global consumer spending will be down 4%. Is the deterioration of all sectors of the economy's contraction and maintain the purchasing power of cash. Has entered a recession as long as a year of the U.S.A economy, due to layoffs growth since World War II may be subject to a maximum period of depression. A research report that the economic downturn will lead to the United States, Western Europe, Canada and Japan's science and technology to reduce budget expenditures. China and India in the emerging markets, science and technology expenditure growth is also slowing down.
IT spending as the main force of financial companies cut costs in the United States next year's financial expenditure in science and technology budget will be reduced by 20%. The largest computer services provider IBM in the enterprise software market, consumer spending gained share will be lower.
The server computer market share is shrinking, consumer spending goal is to lower the price to use Intel chips in Dell and Hewlett-Packard products transfer. And Sun server computers than that of HP products more people like it, because Hewlett-Packard with a more appropriate and better able to run the Linux operating system.
In the face of the current economic downturn, some companies in the anti-recession may have an advantage. Software market in other areas, including SAP's enterprise applications software and Microsoft's operating system and office software, may be worse.
Monday, 15. December 2008, 06:38:49
software, Linux, Windows, Diary
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Over the years, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "The Network Is The Computer" the famous slogan. Today, when the Cloud Computing industry has been on the agenda at the time, Sun's absence on a particularly eye-catching.
According to foreign media, Sun said, the company has begun to step-by-step, to fully participate in the cloud computing. It plans to more hardware, software and talent goes into the calculation of the project.
In fact, the Cloud Computing respect to the implementation of Sun technology is not available, it has powerful hardware, xVM Virtual Machine in addition to running its own Solaris operating system, but also be able to run Windows and Linux operating systems, in addition to a similar multi-enterprise Luster File System, Storage Technology and the development of ZFS, there is Java, MySQL and Glassfish, and other software.
Sun confirmed the calculation of the three-level clouds are: that is, software services, that is, platform services, infrastructure services, namely, Sun plans to three different levels of fat at the same time, and focus on up to the level of demand. According to the work of different cloud computing applications vary, so the cloud of high-performance computing and Web services cloud calculations are different.
Cloud computing enormous business opportunities, according to market research firm IDC estimates that in 2008 around the world in the field of internal cloud computing costs up to 16,000,000,000 U.S. dollars and is expected to increase in 2012 to 42,000,000,000 U.S. dollars. At the same time, clouds of the total IT spending in the calculation of the ratio from the current 4% increase in 2012 to 9%, and the figure has been taken into account the slowdown in economic growth.
Thursday, 4. December 2008, 09:39:49
software, news, Linux, fun
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Lapalaining in the "Nokia World" by the General Assembly during a media interview, said that in the long run, Linux will become a high-end Nokia phones is an important choice. Linux's position in the mobile phone industry is on the rise, Google launched the Android's Linux-based platform. Nokia likely to start in the high-end mobile phones used in Linux software.
Previously, Nokia has been using a mobile phone is the Symbian software system, only the mobile Internet equipment at its Internet Tablet products used in the Linux maemo software.
In order to avoid due to the Symbian platform with its own smart phone competition, Maemo platform products can not access the phone network. Nokia announced that the Symbian platform, open source and completely free of charge, the Nokia seems to have changed their minds, and hopes to increase its own Linux system's competitive edge.
Monday, 10. November 2008, 09:57:21
fun, Computer, Diary, news
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As the saying goes, "one of the men behind the success there must be a great woman." Similarly, a great technology behind must be pursued in a great figure. The following is the IT market, so far the greatest man of 10 technology.
1. Linus Torvalds-Linux founder
2. Steve Wozniak - Apple co-founder
3. Tim Berners-Lee-founder of the World Wide Web
4. Seymour Cray - founder of the supercomputer
5. Marc Andreessen - the Internet browser (Mosaic), founder of
6. Grace Hopper - COBOL language founder
7. Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce - inventor of the integrated circuit
8. Alan Turing - the father of computer science
9. Richard Stallman - founder of the Free Software
10. Paul Allen - Microsoft co-founder
Tuesday, 28. October 2008, 09:29:36
Linux, fun, Windows, Vista
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In this week's upcoming Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft will release Windows 7 preview version. At that time, Microsoft will release more information on Windows 7. Some analysts pointed out that a few days ago, Windows 7 to avoid making the same mistakes Vista, must do the following things 5.
1. Run faster
Slow Windows Vista is the biggest flaw of one of the hardware in the same conditions, Vista's speed significantly slower than Windows XP.
2. To avoid compatibility problems
Vista compatibility issues are a headache for the entire industry, companies are discouraged for Vista.
3. To low prices
In recent years, Apple's Mac computer sales growth has been higher than the industry average, while the Mac OS X systems are also eating into Windows market share. However, the main apple-oriented high-end, Windows is the main rival Linux, but in the habit of using the Linux system users relatively unfamiliar. As a result, if Microsoft can provide more low-Windows systems, the market is bound to win, especially low-cost PC market.
4. Version
Windows XP has two main versions, Home and Professional. Windows Vista and there are four major version of Home Basic, Home Premium, Business and Ultimate versions. Analysts have previously said, Vista version too easy to confuse users. Therefore, Windows 7 version is enough.
5. Boxed set of the final operating system
With the popularity of the Internet, Windows 7 should be a boxed set of the last operating system, Microsoft should be prepared for that purpose. In the future, if there are updates system, can upgrade to the Internet.