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[News] Chinese Report on the Growing Use of Linux on the Desktop

  • Subject: [News] Chinese Report on the Growing Use of Linux on the Desktop
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:30:15 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
www.chinaccm.com/4s - announces that a new market research report related to
the Chinese Linux Software is available in its catalogue.

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| Acceptance and use of desktop Linux was evidently rising among SMB and home 
| users. Driven by ISVs and system integrators, the regional markets experience 
| expedited growth.  
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http://www.pr-inside.com/www-chinaccm-com-4s-announces-that-r307280.htm


Recent:

Novell, Dell expand customer choice with Linux offerings

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| Novell and Dell announced to expand Linux offerings with the addition of SUSE 
| Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 installed on Dell OptiPlex 330 and 755 business 
| desktop PCs in China. The systems will be available later this year.   
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http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/news/pressnews/novell-dell-expand-customer-choicelinux-offerings/11/40/312402


Red Hat VP Michael Chen: Building a Strategy for China

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| The soft-spoken Chen, 36, was recently promoted to Red Hat's vice president 
| for corporate marketing. He returned to Raleigh, where he also received a 
| master's degree from N.C. State University. Chen talked about the transition 
| last week. An edited transcript follows.   
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/60088.html


China puts hopes in Loongson CPU

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| China, which has long wished to develop its own computer industry, has chosen 
| to go with Linux on the software side. Loongson is its hope for the hardware 
| side.  
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http://www.linux.com/feature/119890


CCID Consulting: Industrial Convergence Accelerates Technological Innovation

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| As to the development of operating systems, China has done a lot of R&D work 
| on Chinese Linux, supporting open source codes and its applications. 
| Currently, many manufacturers have developed commercial Chinese Linux 
| operating systems and have applied them to industrial and informatization 
| projects. China has independently developed Red Flag Linux, CS&S Linux and 
| Red Office based on Linux. As to the server operating system, the 
| technological development of Kylin (internal test version) has been completed 
| and provided with independent intellectual properties. Added to this, China 
| has developed Chinese Linux for desktops, CS&S Linux4.0 and Red Flag 
| Linux4.0. As for office software, the large-scale integrated office software 
| Yongzhong Office2003 has been successfully developed with independent 
| intellectual property. KingSoft developed the new cross-platform word 
| composition engine, tabular computation engine and animation play engine for 
| Chinese Linux and put forward KingSoft WPS running on Chinese Linux. China 
| has make breakthrough progress on the application of Linux to servers, 
| embedded systems, Internet and information security. Application software for 
| intelligent mobile phones, STBs, commercial servers and medical appliances 
| have been developed and they present satisfying commercial applications 
| potential and high commercial value...                  
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http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,211895.shtml


Related:

Linux gains ground in China

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| Linux has been riding on a wave in China, topping the growth of all operating 
| systems in the first quarter of 2007, says an industry analyst. 
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/insight/specialreports/0,39044853,62028679,00.htm


Red Hat sees FY07 greater China sales up 100 pct

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| Red Hat Inc., a distributor of open-source Linux software, expects its
| sales in the greater China region to double in fiscal 2007 and grow by
| 85 percent in fiscal 2008, an executive said on Tuesday. "Our plan is to
| have 100 percent growth this year, and 85 percent growth next year," 
| Michael Chen, general manager of Red Hat China, told Reuters in an
| interview.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20060926:MTFH04213_2006-09-26_06-26-12_SHA306441&type=comktNews&rpc=44
http://tinyurl.com/rdrsg


Linux becomes mature and achieves excellence

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| According to statistics from the China Open Source Software Promotion 
| Union, Linux's sales in the Chinese market reached 218 million Yuan in 
| 2006, up 41 percent, and higher than the international average. In 2006, 
| in the domestic market, seven million computers in the domestic market 
| were signed up for pre-installation of Linux, making up 35 percent of 
| the computers in the Chinese market. This all demonstrates that Linux 
| has great development potential. Some domestic Linux manufacturers are 
| also collaborating with international IT companies to constantly improve 
| their product lines. The domestic brand, Linux, has essentially matured.
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http://english.people.com.cn/200706/25/eng20070625_387493.html#9566721867012069773


CCID Consulting: China's Linux Market up by 30.9% in 2007Q1

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| As for industry segments, Linux market growth was mainly concentrated
| in the government, financial services and telecom sectors, which accounted
| for a market share of 34%, 22.5% and 21.2% respectively. 
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http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-08-2007/0004583089&EDATE=
http://tinyurl.com/yooq7a

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