‘Cost sensitivity is greater in India’
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| [Q] What about individual consumers?
|
| There will be a class of applications that capture some degree of their
| imagination such as what Firefox or Open Office did. But by and large, most
| consumers are still going to get their technology through the purchase of
| other products embedded with OSS.
|
| If there was more enforcement of the intellectual property law (of
| proprietary software), there would be more demand for running Linux.
|
| [Q] What is the future of OSS adoption in India?
|
| Usage will increase. The IT industry will push heavily for OSS in the next
| one-two years in the solutions that they deliver for their customers
| remotely. In some cases, they will even obscure the use of it.
| (Several) call centres in India are no longer using Windows on the desktops
| in front of the agents because it is a Web-based interface.
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http://www.livemint.com/2008/02/19010808/8216Cost-sensitivity-is-gre.html
Mind the part where he talks about embedded devices and over-the-Web service.
Also in the news you find:
More than 20 Million TV Phones Ship in Japan
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| The service is favored in portable gadgets over the conventional
| high-definition digital TV service because the processing power needed to
| handle the OneSeg signal is significantly lower. The maximum OneSeg data rate
| is about 416k bps (bits per second) versus about 20M bps for terrestrial
| HDTV.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,142558-c,cellphones/article.html
Japan is setting laptops and desktops aside (see below). It gradually makes
Windows obsolete, passe.
Related:
PCs being pushed aside in Japan
,----[ Quote ]
| The PC's role in Japanese homes is diminishing, as its once-awesome monopoly
| on processing power is encroached by gadgets such as smart phones that act
| like pocket-size computers, advanced Internet-connected game consoles,
| digital video recorders with terabytes of memory.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071104/ap_on_hi_te/bye_bye_pcs
The Year of Linux
,----[ Quote ]
| Linux absolutely is doing well in embedded devices, and I'm sure that trend
| is going to continue. But Linux has not yet regained the ground that Unix
| lost in the SMB application market. Back in the 80's and even into the 90's,
| that market was strongly pro-Unix. A lot of it was SCO, of course, because
| this was all before Linux existed. Microsoft took that market away, but I see
| no reason that Linux couldn't take it back - Linux SHOULD take it back
| because Linux servers make much more sense than Microsoft and of course cost
| far less.
|
| This is a market where the GUI arguments (KDE, Gnome) don't really matter -
| in most cases you'd want your application controlled through a web interface.
| It's really foolish to do anything else in any but the most unusual
| circumstances and of course the big benefit is platform independence: you get
| free from the tyranny of Microsoft but also don't have to force customers off
| it.
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http://aplawrence.com/Linux/year-of-linux.html
Four billion embedded systems shipped in '06
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3686249103.html
Linux Sees 'Astronomic' Growth in Mobile Devices
,----[ Quote ]
| "We were very aware that the growth in mobile for Linux was huge, but we
| didn't know it was so astronomic," Amanda McPherson, marketing director for
| the Linux Foundation, told LinuxInsider. "These are very encouraging
| numbers." Why Linux has drawn significant support from the community of
| handset manufacturers can be explained on several fronts, McPherson said.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59162.html
Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco: Linux Is Mobile's Future
,----[ Quote ]
| LinuxInsider met with Capobianco to discuss his view on the role of open
| source in creating Mobile 2.0 as a voice and data carrier parallel to the
| Internet. The meeting occurred in the wake of Google's announcement earlier
| this month that it was negotiating with wireless carriers, handset makers,
| software developers and hardware providers to use an open source mobile
| platform, Android.
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http://www.technewsworld.com/story/60340.html
After the Desktop -- What?
,----[ Quote ]
| I would suggest that the open source community should stop obsessing
| with the battle for the desktop, and start focusing on the battle for
| the platform that will replace it. As I have said before, the day
| will soon come when the notion of having to go to a particular
| machine on a particular room every time you need access to
| information or computer power will be as obsolete as the notion
| of having to go to the hand pump over the well in the front
| yard every time you need water.
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http://trevors-trinkets.blogspot.com/2007/02/after-desktop-what.html
Linux is about to take over the low end of PCs
,----[ Quote ]
| Opinion -- Sometimes, several unrelated changes come to a head at the same
| time, with a result no one could have predicted. The PC market is at such a
| tipping point right now and the result will be millions of Linux-powered PCs
| in users' hands.
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoft will fight this trend tooth and nail. It will cut prices to the
| point where it'll be bleeding ink on some of its product lines. And Windows
| XP is going to stick around much longer than Microsoft ever wanted it to.
| Still, it won't be enough. By attacking from the bottom, where Microsoft can
| no longer successfully compete, Linux will finally cut itself a large slice
| of the desktop market pie.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2414535067.html
Where does Linux go from here?
,----[ Quote ]
| Linux and free software are here to stay. No single commercial firm will ever
| control the Linux ecosystem like Microsoft has the rest of the software
| industry. Though both may prosper, the bazaar will outlive the boardrooms,
| and Linux popularity will continue to grow on servers, desktops, appliances,
| and embedded devices.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/119865s
Linux loyalty runs high among embedded software developers, says VDC
,----[ Quote ]
| Looking ahead, 87% percent of Linux users plan to use Linux in their next
| project. In both cases, use of free distributions outnumbered use of paid
| distributions by a sizable margin.
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http://software.tekrati.com/research/9436/
Linux to grow 278% in embedded/mobile/real-time apps
,----[ Quote ]
| 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
PCs step aside… smarter mobiles are coming
,----[ Quote ]
| Citing the examples of the company’s single core solutions for smart phones,
| consumer electronics and automotive entertainment and ARM Mali graphics
| processors, and its collaboration for Linux mobile computing, Mr Keith said
| mobile phone makers are taking to a platform approach which offers
| flexibility to add new features.
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http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2007/11/05/stories/2007110550450200.htm
Linux Sees 'Astronomic' Growth in Mobile Devices
,----[ Quote ]
| "We were very aware that the growth in mobile for Linux was huge, but we
| didn't know it was so astronomic," Amanda McPherson, marketing director for
| the Linux Foundation, told LinuxInsider. "These are very encouraging
| numbers." Why Linux has drawn significant support from the community of
| handset manufacturers can be explained on several fronts, McPherson said.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59162.html
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