Brit Business Users Not Warm on Vista
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| More than half (58 per cent) of businesses using Microsoft technology
| are "exploiting" Windows XP compared to just four per cent for Vista,
| according to the 'reality checkers' research by the Corporate IT Forum (Tif),
| seen exclusively by silicon.com.
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http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/oct2008/gb2008101_463601.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index+-+temp_global+business
Wow. Vista *is* a success. Cannibalising XP at the rate of 0.2% per month in UK
commerce (Microsoft-receptive market).
What a disaster.
Recent:
Linux Market to Triple by 2012
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| Analyst firm Research and Markets has just put out a project on Linux-based
| server and client hardware sales, and is projecting that the market will more
| than triple between 2007 and 2012.
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| A market for a platform is not the same as an ecosystem for it, which is much
| larger in that it includes the cost of people and third-party software and
| services for the code that runs atop the platform. So the R&M Linux market
| numbers might seem a little small. In any event, the consultancy pegged the
| Linux product and services market for Linux running on servers and clients
| (but not embedded systems) at $2.4 billion in 2007.
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http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb031108-story07.html
Related:
2010: Russia's open software market to grow 4-fold
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| Analysts note that Linux vendors are traditionally present on the mobile
| device market. According to forecasts the OS might become the leader in
| the segment accounting for 40% of it by 2010. ?Currently the share of
| mobile devices with Linux OS is not big in Russia as compared to other
| countries, such as China, for instance. However, the producer's policy,
| Nokia in particular testifies to the fact the situation is changing
| for the better", Ms. Karaeva concluded.
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http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn.shtml?2007/05/15/249978
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