Open source claims seat at the corporate table in ‘08
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| Developments around power management, virtualization, mobile devices and data
| centers will drive open source, Linux in 2008
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| After years spent on the corporate proving ground, open source and Linux are
| looking at a 2008 that could likely show how hard labor pays off.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/121107-crystal-ball-open-source.html
Have a happy GNU Linux year!
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| Make 2008 the year you switch. Liberate your computer and join the Linux
| revolution. I want to make an impassioned plea to you, but not only that, I’m
| going to tell you how to go about it with confidence, stability and all the
| while being able to still do all the things you use your computer for.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15767/1141/
Related:
Linux to grow 278% in embedded/mobile/real-time apps
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| Linux use in "next" embedded, mobile, and real-time projects will grow 278
| percent over that in "previous" projects, suggests a recent survey by Venture
| Development Corp. (VDC).
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7115758310.html
Linux the fastest-growing smartphone OS
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| Meanwhile, in the world's largest mobile phone market (China), Linux already
| has a 30 percent share, CCID Consulting Company said in March.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9422438794.html
Linux grabs 30% of China's fast-growing smartphone market
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| China consumed 15 million smartphones in 2006, up from 10 million
| units in 2005, resulting in more than doubling of smartphone
| revenues, according to Chinese market research firm CCID Consulting
| Company. Symbian controlled 63.2 percent of the market, followed by
| Linux (30.3 percent) and Windows Mobile (5.4 percent).
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9419753617.html
Unbundling Microsoft Windows
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| Computers in the European Union should be sold without a bundled operating
| system, according to this submission to the European Commission. It says that
| the bundling of Microsoft Windows with computers is not in the public
| interest, and prevents meaningful competition in the operating system market.
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http://www.globalisation.eu/briefings/competition-policy/unbundling-microsoft-windows-200709231241/
Red Hat Pits Itself Against VMware
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| Red Hat’s new goal is to underpin 50% of the world’s servers by 2015.
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http://www.clientservernews.com/
Dell's Latitude XT convertible laptop ready to ship
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| In China, it will ship with the Red Flag Linux OS.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071207/tc_infoworld/93910
Dell beefs up Precision portable workstation line
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| Dell is adding more power to its high-end line of mobile workstations with
| the debut of the Precision M6300, a 17" notebook geared at engineers,
| developers, video editors and others who need to tote around some serious
| silicon.
|
| [...]
|
| RedHat Linux 5.1 will be available on the system in October.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/04/dell_precision_m6300/
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