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Linux is Big in Japan — Our Symposium
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| The 8th Linux Foundation Japan Symposium took place last week in Tokyo. The
| goal of these symposiums is to bring leading Linux luminaries to present and
| interact with local senior software developers, with the goal of increasing
| open source participation by talented Japanese developers and also fostering
| Linux usage in the Japanese IT industry.
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http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/amanda/2008/07/15/linux-is-big-in-japan-our-symposium/
Many millions of Sony televisions, for example, are running Linux. It's a
crucial ingredient of many devices (maybe more than Windows).
Photos:
Linux Foundation Japan Symposium Notes
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| He also said that around 15% of kernel contributions are now coming from
| Japan.
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http://james-morris.livejournal.com/31240.html
Recent:
Red Hat Named #1 IT Vendor For Second Consecutive Year in Japan
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| Red Hat ranked first of 68 nominated vendors in Nikkei Market Access' April
| 2008 study, following the Company's fourth recognition for vendor value by
| CIO Insight in December 2007
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http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2008/japan_itvendor.html
Japan KDE Users Group Interview
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| How did the Japanese KDE Users Group start?
|
| It had its beginning when Junji Takagi made a patch for operating mulitibyte
| characters such as Japanese, when Qt's version 1.x was released. Qt 1.x
| couldn't operate mulitibyte characters, so we couldn't use Japanese in KDE
| 1.x previously.
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| After the patch was made, The Japan KDE Users' Group was launched for
| aggregating the information about KDE/Qt in Japan.
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http://dot.kde.org/1208472296/
Related:
Japan's Plat'Home launching palm-sized Linux server in U.S.
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| Part of the first ecology-friendly line of Linux servers ever shipped in the
| United States, Plat'Home's OpenBlockS server has been built and tested to
| provide enterprise-grade reliability in its RISC-based hardware, and has
| eliminated moving parts including a hard disk drive and cooling fan. It is
| also RoHS-certified, a European Union directive meaning that it's free of
| lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, and other damaging materials.
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http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9906136-1.html
Open source: Made in Japan?
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| I talked with Jesse Casman and Craig Oda of PageOne PR upon their return from
| Japan and got a very different picture on the Japanese open-source market.
| There's Takashi Iwai, for example, currently one of the top-10 contributors
| to the Linux kernel. And then there's Yukihiro ("Matz") Matsumoto, the chief
| designer of the Ruby programming language, of course. There's Plat'Home, the
| company that introduced Linux in Japan in 1993 (yes, 1993!), did a successful
| IPO in Japan in 2000, and currently ships microservers based on their own mix
| of Linux and BSD that fit in the palm of your hand. There's Turbolinux and
| Miracle Linux, as well.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9906320-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Google ties up with Japan's DoCoMo to grow abroad
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| The two firms, which also plan to launch a Linux-based mobile handset in
| Japan, aim to reap joint advertising revenues of 10 billion yen "as soon as
| possible," they said, without disclosing how they plan to split revenues.
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http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUKT8179720080124
Research and Markets: Symbian and Linux Enjoy the Highest Penetration in the
Japanese Smartphone Market
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| Symbian and Linux enjoy the highest penetration in the Japanese smartphone
| market and appear to be the beneficiaries in any expansion of smartphone use
| there.
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080102005331&newsLang=en
http://tinyurl.com/34ns9q
PCs being pushed aside in Japan
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| 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
Will Access become DoCoMo's Linux platform?
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| So will Access become DoCoMo's Linux platform? We believe that although this
| collaboration is in its early stages there is a good chance that DoCoMo will
| adopt ALP because it solves a number of key issues currently burdening DoCoMo
| and its handset suppliers using a vendor that it has had a successful
| relationship with.
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http://www.ovum.com/news/euronews.asp?id=6472
NTT DoCoMo ramps up the Linux mobile platform battle
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| There are at least three contenders jostling for a share of the growing
| market for Linux-based mobile device platforms. Now giant Japanese cellular
| operator, NTT DoCoMo, is throwing its weight behind a fourth.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15826/127/
Linux phone stack vendor wins big in Japan
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| The deal could see the Access Linux Platform (ALP) serving as a common OS
| platform for NEC, Panasonic, and Esteemo phones sold by NTT DoCoMo and other
| mobile carriers.
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http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS3265888001.html
Japanese Government to Embrace Linux
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| Oracle Japan is said to be leading the effort, which could launch
| as early as next month.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070503/34429_id.html?.v=1
Oracle, IBM, NEC to market Linux in Japan: Nikkei
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| Major information technology firms, including Oracle Corp., IBM Corp. and
| NEC Corp., will set up a consortium to sell servers and systems running
| the Linux operating system in Japan, a financial daily said on
| Thursday.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/02/AR2007050202938.html
Schools across Japan may switch to Linux
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| Japan's public broadcaster NHK reported late last week that the
| Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry plans to introduce
| the open-source operating system Linux for use within classrooms
| across the country in the near future.
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http://gyaku.jp/en/index.php?cmd=contentview&pid=000112
Microsoft foresees more suits in Japan
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| A legal battle between Microsoft and Japanese anti-monopoly authorities
| is likely to conclude next year and might lead to lawsuits or other
| patent infringement complaints against the U.S. software company,
| an executive said Thursday.
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoft has been slapped with hefty fines by European Union regulators,
| who have said Microsoft broke competition laws and abused its dominant
| market position.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070412/ap_on_hi_te/japan_microsoft
OpenLogic Extends Reach in Japan with Ashisuto Strategic Partnership
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| Under the agreement, OpenLogic will provide support to Ashisuto
| customers for hundreds of open source packages.
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http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,112851.shtml
BakBone Leads Linux Data Protection Software Market in Japan for Fifth
Consecutive Year
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| Between 2005 and 2006 BakBone grew its Linux data protection market share
| from 70.6% to 73.2% as outlined in the report "Japan Storage Software
| 2007-2011 Forecast and 2006 Vendor Shares."
|
| [...]
|
| According to IDC data, the Linux data protection software market in Japan is
| driven by BakBone, which continues to maintain high growth at approximately
| 20% per year.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070724/20070724005129.html?.v=1
MySQL K.K. to Strengthen its Presence in the Japanese Database Market
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| MySQL K.K., the Japanese arm of the open source database developer MySQL AB,
| has announced three new initiatives aimed at strengthening its expansion in
| the Japanese market.
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http://www.mysolutioninfo.com/news-display.aspx?Code=1971&t=MySQL%20K.K
%20to%20Strengthen%20its%20Presence%20in%20the%20Japanese%20Database%20Market
Government of Japan Embraces Open Software Standards
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| The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance), the leading organization
| advocating for openness and accessibility to government documents and
| information, today congratulated Japan for adopting a policy under which
| government ministries and agencies will solicit bids from software vendors
| whose products support internationally recognized open standards.
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http://www.govtech.com/gt/126612?topic=117674
Linux hot at top Japanese embedded conference
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| Japan's largest embedded conference of the year reportedly
| featured a growing number of Linux-related demonstrations,
| compared to previous years.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9926749642.html
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