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Re: [C]logwog - Clueless nym-shifter

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.
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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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HPT

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