__/ [ John Bailo ] on Monday 22 January 2007 16:22 \__
> amicus_curious wrote:
>
>> Apparently the lure of Windows in China remains unabated in spite of the
>> Linux offerings there. Nothing like the real thing, eh?
>
> Sort of ridiculous when you realize that only 000.001% of computers in
> China could possibly run the thing.
That new homebred PC which comes preinstalled with Linux will never cope with
Vista, let alone XP. Microsoft underestimated the impact of resource hog on
countries where PCs are either old, or simply sold with less than 1GB of RAM
(2GB is recommended for Vista). See some of the recent new below.
Will China Be Linux's Best Friend In 2007?
,----[ Quote ]
| The sale of IBM's PC division to Chinese-owned Lenovo was only the tip of
| the iceberg, it seems. Now, the latest news indicate that computers running
| on Chinese-made processors and running Linux will be introduced before the
| Chinese New Year. Good news indeed for those who would like to see Intel
| and Microsoft's domination of the global PC market finally face some
| genuine competition.
|
| [...]
|
| The things in favor of the Chinese PCs: a) through its sheer size,
| China has considerable economic leverage on most countries in the
| West (particularly Canada and the US) and may simply demand that
| these new computers be given a serious opportunity in overseas
| markets; b) successful adoption of the computers in its own country
| could lead to greater likelihood of adoption in other countries;
| and c) priced quite low, these computers may garner an initial
| following as a novelty or a toy for hobbyists and/or Linux
| afficionados, leading to further growth.
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http://www.performancepccanada.com/?defaultarticle=1066&defaultnode=516&layout=20&pagefunction=Load%20Layout&formfields[sect_title]=Editorial
http://tinyurl.com/yosn7t
China Linux Market Will Grow at Annual Rate of 34%, Says R&M
,----[ Quote ]
| It is predicted that in China, Linux market (both server and client)
| will grow with an annual rate of 34 %. The client-side share growth
| will be comparatively faster.
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http://eb-asia.com/article.asp?id=7528
Hasee PCs Preinstall Linux Desktop
,----[ Quote ]
| Co-Create, founded in 2001, is a Beijing-based software company
| specializing in development, production and application of Linux
| and the cross-platform office suite sponsored by 8 Chinese
| well-known IT companies.
|
| Co-Create made great achievements in 2006 thanks to the
| regulations on the pre-installation of computer operating
| system software. Many computer manufacturers, including Lenovo,
| HP and Dell all cooperated with Co-Create. 23 Dell computer
| models sold in China all completely preinstall Linux operating
| systems.
`----
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&newsid=7969
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2006/01/a_big_step_for.html
,----[ Quote ]
| "China has long been seen as a fertile ground for Linux and other open
| source software. In a country where more than 90% of software in use
| is pirated, it seems like a natural fit."
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/50004.html
Linux Set to Soar in China
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2006/06/03/2003311446
Government says all new PCs must be Linux-friendly
China looks to open-source community for advice
,----[ Quote ]
| China is counting on senior members of the open-source community to
| help formulate policy ideas to promote open-source software, according
| to a local software executive.
|
| The China Open-Source Software Promotion Union (COPU), a government-backed
| industry group, has established a think tank comprised of 19 prominent
| open-source executives from overseas to develop a framework for better
| international cooperation.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/05/18/78442_HNchinaopensource_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/05/18/78442_HNchinaopensource_1.html
,----[ Quote ]
| Many such vendors previously sold PCs with free operating systems such as
| Linux or none at all...
|
| Observers believe the Chinese vendors signed their deals with Microsoft
| in April under pressure from Beijing, which is trying to show it is
| making serious efforts to stamp out piracy -- a major complaint from
| many Western governments.
|
| In late March, the Chinese government went so far as to issue a
| decree requiring PC makers to install a licensed operating system on
| each machine before it left the factory.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060601/bs_nm/china_microsoft_dc
China's Linux Adoption Threat to Microsoft?
,----[ Quote ]
| Most recently, China has been placing their bets on Linux over Windows as
| the dominant OS for their needs. And one of the best examples of this on
| the desktop front would have to be with Turbolinux. The distribution has
| been so widely accepted by the Chinese that even HP has decided to begin
| selling PCs with the OS preinstalled for distribution. But it doesn't
| stop there. China has a distribution of its very own; you may know it as
| Red Flag Linux.
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http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2249&Itemid=449
China to produce $125 (Linux) PC
,----[ Quote ]
| A Chinese outfit is hoping to release a PC which will hit the shops with a
| price tag of $125.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34355
Xinjiang Clusters Panasas
,----[ Quote ]
| Currently, Xinjiang Oil Company is running 12 Panasas Storage Clusters
| in conjunction with 600-node Linux clusters at the company's Department
| of Earth Science in western China.
|
| [...]
|
| "The object-based Panasas storage solution totally turns things around
| by giving us the things we were looking for--high performance,
| expansibility, stability, dependability, and simplified management...
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http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=105015&WT.svl=wire2_1
China gets a lesson on Open Source Intellectual Property Rights
,----[ Quote ]
| The Open Invention Network (OIN) hosted a panel discussion in Beijing
| last Wednesday, October 11th... The emergence of organizations such as
| OIN and Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) is very positive to the
| Open Source Movement. It legitimizes the grass roots efforts of Linux
| Champions, such as Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman.
`----
http://www.zdnetasia.com/blog/opensource/0,39060102,61959441,00.htm
Car PCs mount in dashboards, run Linux
,----[ Quote ]
| Hong Kong based mini-PC manufacturing specialist SD-Omega has added
| a pair of high-end models to its extensive line of more than 20
| Linux-friendly car PC models. The SD631C and PCI-slot-equipped
| SD631CH support Intel Pentium M and Celeron M processors at over
| 2GHz, and include car-specific features.
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http://www.linux.org//news/2006/10/31/0006.html
Behind the upsurge in Chinese open source communities
,----[ Quote ]
| Part of the momentum behind this change comes from the Chinese
| government, which now regards open source communities as a key to
| its software industry and will put more resources toward them in its
| eleventh Five-Year-Plan period (2006-2010). "As a banner of China's
| Linux industry, Red Flag no doubt has more responsibilities to
| advocate the government's new tactic.
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http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/10/27/1829255&from=rss
Ubuntu's official launch in China
,----[ Quote ]
| Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu project, was in Beijing
| last week for Ubuntu's official China launch. The event was
| overwhelmingly successful.
`----
http://www.zdnetasia.com/blog/opensource/0,39060102,61965081,00.htm
RPLinux: China's Answer to the $100 PC
,----[ Quote ]
| What do you think? Can China succeed in making a true seamless blend of
| their Linux distribution of choice with their home grown hardware? It's
| no small feat to be sure; however, I personally believe that they are
| likely up to the challenge.
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http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2350&Itemid=468
Red Hat sees FY07 greater China sales up 100 pct
,----[ Quote ]
| Red Hat Inc., a distributor of open-source Linux software, expects its
| sales in the greater China region to double in fiscal 2007 and grow by
| 85 percent in fiscal 2008, an executive said on Tuesday. "Our plan is to
| have 100 percent growth this year, and 85 percent growth next year,"
| Michael Chen, general manager of Red Hat China, told Reuters in an
| interview.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20060926:MTFH04213_2006-09-26_06-26-12_SHA306441&type=comktNews&rpc=44
http://tinyurl.com/rdrsg
China's Digit Digit Adds Linux-based Flames
,----[ Quote ]
| The latest version of the VFX system - Flame 2007 - takes advantage of
| 64-bit multi-core computing, storage and networking technologies to
| provide large productivity gains for users performing compositing,
| tracking, color correction and visual effects.
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http://www.postmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=news&mod=News&mid=9A02E3B96F2A415ABC72CB5F516B4C10&tier=3&nid=757A20D85AED457E9DA74AFD3E19D8B0
http://tinyurl.com/yggx4b
China has its own open document format
,----[ Quote ]
| Put this in your pipe and smoke it: China has its own open document
| format, the Uniform Office Format (UOF), that they are working to
| harmonize with ODF...
|
| All the plotting and planning here in the US was for absolutely
| nothing. ODF wins.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061108134931144
Converter Enables Conversion Between ODF & Chinese Document Format (UOF)
,----[ Quote ]
| Peking University recently released a program to convert office
| documents between OpenDocument Format and the Specification for
| the Chinese office file format based on XML (UOF for short).
`----
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/77350/index.html
Wake Up Morning Post
,----[ Quote ]
| Open Source companies in China can't look to the likes of IBM, SUN
| and Novell to bring them out of their closets through acquisition,
| partnerships or staunching Microsoft's growth. Chinese companies are
| going to have to learn to compete as their Western peers have.
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/blog/opensource/0,39060102,61966769,00.htm
Treachery In The Trenches
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| I believe that most people do not grasp the immense entity of Microsoft.
| This is an organization and a man who commands the attention and bidding
| of world leaders. On a recent trip to America, the President of China
| spent his first evening in the United States, not with our President,
| but Bill Gates. He was the guest of the Gates mansion that first
| evening and the guest of honor for a dinner attended by over one
| hundred people. Why? To ask him to crack down on Software piracy
| and to insure that his computer manufacturers put Microsoft Windows
| on thier newly made machines instead of shipping them with no OS. He
| didn't see the President of the United States for over 36 hours...he
| spent that time with Bill Gates at his home and at the Redmond
| Campus.
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http://blog.lobby4linux.com/index.php?/archives/88-Treachery-In-The-Trenches.html
IBM to Shift China Focus Toward Tech, Linux
,----[ Quote ]
| "Our business is changing, so our investment in China will also
| change," said Michael Cannon-Brookes, IBM's vice-president of
| business development for China and India.
|
| He said the technology firm's investments will go to areas such as
| IT service, business transformation, Linux operating systems, and
| people. IBM has already invested billions of U.S. dollars in China.
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http://www.technewsworld.com/story/54277.html
Red Flag Linux may be next on IBM's agenda
,----[ Quote ]
| Jollans also addressed a question about why IBM did not release its own
| Linux distribution several years ago.
|
| "We thought that if IBM was in the market as an 800-pound gorilla, it
| would have a negative effect on the Linux market. We won't do something
| that sets us against the community," he said.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/092206-red-flag-linux-may-be.html
Dell's secret Linux fling
,----[ Quote ]
| Dell's love affair with Linux is a clandestine affair these days,
| conducted in secret, away from disapproving eyes. But now the pair
| have been spotted in China.
|
| When Michael Dell first saw the web-footed beauty, he fell head over
| heels. Six years ago Dell pledged a series of strategic investments
| in Linux companies, including Eazel and Red Hat. The romance
| attracted the disapproval of Microsoft however, and barely lasted
| weeks. Very quietly, Dell dumped the bird.
|
| It later emerged that Microsoft's OEM enforcer Joachim Kempin had
| promised Steve Ballmer that he'd be putting the screws on PCb
| uilders, or "hitting the OEMs harder" in his words.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/09/dell_linux_china/
Microsoft loses top executive in China
,----[ Quote ]
| "Li Gong is currently exploring other career opportunities," Microsoft said
| in a statement to News.com.
|
| [...]
|
| In a September 2005 Business Week interview, Ballmer touted Gong as
| one of several key hires that Microsoft had made.
|
| Most recently, Gong has served as managing director of Windows LiveC
| hina and as Vice President of Microsoft China R&D Group.
|
| Gong's name came up in the case over Kai-Fu Lee, the top Microsoft
| executive whose hiring by Google sparked a multistate legal battle.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6149735.html
Will 2007 be the Year for Linux?
,----[ Quote ]
| Last question, where does China fit into all of this? Well, a
| market like China is great for new technologies and solutions
| to proliferate. I hope Microsoft is successful in its fight
| against piracy, as the Chinese, with their burgeoning salaries
| and hunger for an easier life won't be turning to bulky
| desktops and costly software. Stylish, cost effective and
| fully integrated solutions are what will dominate this market,
| as well as all the developing markets of this world.
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/blog/opensource/0,39060102,61981756,00.htm
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