Power Architecture, Part 2: Drawing In Developers
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| While IBM dominates HPC, and Freescale owns much of the embedded market,
| the middle desktop is missing from the Power Architecture landscape. Power
| continues to thrive without the desktop space, but the desktop does, in
| fact, unify an ecosystem and provide a consumer face.
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| [...]
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| The Consortium
| provides access to high-performance Linux OS systems with an
| immediate focus on the Cell Broadband Engine found in the IBM
| and Mercury Cell products, and the Cell processor found in the
| Sony PlayStation 3.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/57181.html
Also yesterday (Cell in action):
Sony says public to test Home for PS3 this summer
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| Sony will open its Home to guests this summer, the consumer electronics
| giant has said. No, we're not talking some tedious Hello-esque
| celebrity fawn-a-thon, but the Second Life-style alternative world
| for the PS3.
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/05/02/sony_ps3_home_open_beta/
Nintendo Wii: Competing Hard
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| Nintendo blew the lid off financial expectations, with earnings up 77
| percent for the fiscal year. Group net profits clocked in $1.47
| billion, rising dramatically over last year's $829 million,
| and sales soared 90 percent to $8.13 billion, up from $4.3
| billion the year prior.
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http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17828/Nintendo-Wii-Competing-Hard
Related:
IBM's Power Architecture Attracting More Linux Developers
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| IBM makes less revenue on servers sold with Linux, compared to
| those that ship with one if its commercial operating systems --
| such as AIX or OS 400 -- but that's offset by the company's
| growing Linux support practice. Linux compatibility also makes
| the company's servers accessible to a wider variety of users,
| such as educational institutions on limited budgets. "We
| benefit from the wider ecosystem that Linux is a part of,"
| says Jollans.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20061202/tc_cmp/196601027
IBM Achieves Major "Linux on POWER" Milestone
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| The number of tested, native applications available for the Linux on
| POWER platform has grown more than 200 percent in the last two years,
| marking it as a fast-developing new IT ecosystem.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/061201/0190250.html
Study: Developers Favor Linux
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| "Regardless of what kind of developer you are, you're still trying to
| make a living, and target the operating system that?s controlling the
| market."
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| However, in the most recent survey, the developers' forecast of their
| target platform has changed. For the first time, these developers said
| that in the next 12 to 18 months they expect to be developing more Linux
| apps than Windows apps.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3645766
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