Clogwog wrote:
Take look at High Plains Thumper <SNIP>
Y-A-W-N .... appears that
Clogwog, Peer Geilzeever, Nicodemus Kwaadenkloot, Gozewienus Smegmasmuller,
Arsene van Tiethuysen, Deodatus Kuttenvanger, Olivier Anusjager, Quirinus
Pukkelpenis, Gradus Kanusmans, Berend van het Aarshouweel, Driekus van 't
Lullenhof, Derk den Klotsoksel, Hentje Kotskameel, Arie Drollenboer, Wullum
Droogkloot, Peer van der Berigheid, Arend Keuvelklier, Marinus Pielrukker,
Karel Klootendraaier, Dingeman Sneerbakkus, Kobus Binnenaars, Manus
Simpelcont, Jodocus Uytbuicker, Arsene den Rode-Apenkontjager, Desederius
van der Keutelenhof, Querinus van der Tiethuyzen, Gezinus den
Sluitspierbeul, Dingeman Sneerbakkus
have nothing better to say. It must be that early winter must be setting
in up north, 2-wheeler riding is over and they are now a shut-in.
Here is something to cheer you up:
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=55800672
[quote]
For a theoretically free operating system, Linux is -- and will continue to
be -- a cash cow, a research firm said Wednesday as it predicted the OS
will bring in more than $35 billion in revenues by 2008.
Framingham, Mass.-based IDC said that overall revenue for servers,
desktops, and packaged software running on Linux will reach $35.7 billion
in the next four years. Currently, IDC pegs Linux's global total take at
just under $15 billion.
The numbers are higher than earlier estimates by most analysts, in part,
said IDC, because it changed it methodology to account for not just Linux
on new hardware, but also Linux that's redeployed on existing hardware, and
even cases when the open-source OS is used as a guest operating system,
such as in a server partitioned with virtualization software to run
multiple OSes.
"This is the first authoritative and comprehensive snapshot of how people
truly use Linux," claimed Stuart Cohen, the chief executive officer of the
Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a Beaverton, Ore.-based Linux advocacy
group that funded IDC's analysis of data the research firm collected
earlier. "It's not surprising to see that the adoption is far ahead of even
some of the most optimistic estimates," Cohen added in a statement.
[/quote]
http://www.informationweek.com/research/showArticle.jhtml?
articleID=201400003&pgno=2&queryText=idc+linux+revenue
or http://tinyurl.com/2l98af
[quote]
The reason Linux will gain a substantial share of future virtualization
revenue is the alignment of its design with the way virtual machines work,
Rosenblum said. Each virtual machine contains a copy of an operating system
and an application, along with virtualization software that allots a share
of hardware resources to the VM. If the operating system has been optimized
for the application, the virtual machine will perform more efficiently.
Linux's design lends itself to such optimization, said Rosenblum. The Linux
kernel is limited to core functions, such as memory management. The modules
that surround the kernel may manage data access or particular hardware
devices. They can be added or stripped away at will without interfering
with the kernel's operation.
Instead of one-operating-system-fits-all, application vendors in the future
will package their software with a copy of Linux that's been optimized to
run their application, Rosenblum predicted. A few do so today, producing
what's known as virtual appliances. The appliance can be presented as a
single file in a format ready to run in a virtual machine.
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