According to industry insiders, compared with IBM, HP and Oracle, my country's Linux market is more than 6,000 million yuan.
Due to the domestic important Linux manufacturer, Zhongke Hongqi, all office software vendors, and the important participants of the previous LINUXWORLD, because the lawsuit has been in the face of the SCO of the righteousness, let LinuxWorld China opened on August 24th will be slightly educated.
However, this does not hinder the recognition of Linux's achievements in the last year.
At the LinuxWorld China 2004 theme conference, almost all speakers have chosen the Idc "2003 to the first quarter of the operating system market statistical report" in the first quarter of 2004 "as part of its speech content. In this report, IDC pointed out that the sales of Linux servers have exceed UNIX servers, and the market share has reached 16%, which becomes a second largest operating system in the server field, and UNIX has dropped to 12%. IDC is expected that by 2005, the global Linux market will reach $ 14 billion.
At the same time, in the past year, the development of Domestic Linux software has made great progress. Whether it is the server, or the desktop Linux is the fastest growing operation platform. According to relevant statistics, in 2003, my country's Linux overall market size was 66.4 million, of which 5.6 million, the desktop end is 10.39 million, the growth rate is 84.3%, 15.7%, respectively. Although the overall scale is still a big gap between Microsoft Windows and UNIX However, the strong growth momentum can indicate that Linux hopes is not far away.
Three major manufacturers reiterate Linux strategy
IBM Scientist Rod Smith: IBM is an open computing active, IBM is very positive for driving Linux.
Liu Tiandong, director of LINUX, China, China, China: Linux is an important strategy of Oracle 05 fiscal year.
Martin Fink: Linux, the HP Global Vice President, is the most important growth momentum in the Asian region.
When you speak at LinuxWorld Exhibition, Linux's main pusher IBM, Oracle, HP reaffirmed Linux's important significance, and during the exhibition, the three companies' booths also occupy the most prominent position in Linuxworld.
During the meeting, IBM sketched the industry to the industry in the future of the Open Computing. IBM Scientist Rod Smith said Linux is not only an open source software. Linux will change the views of our customers. It will become the spokesperson we look at the new market, and open source software is an important part of open computing. He also said that IBM will not be shaken to open support, the company will promote the development of open source software, participate in the development of open standards, and increase support and improve business software and opening up for open source groups. The interoperability of the source code software will drive open calculations.
IBM also publishes new initiatives in the field of hardware and software: IBM Linux's strategic focus will be transferred from all kinds of emerging business opportunities to focus on enterprise solutions. This year, IBM's UNIX Server Product Line IBM EServer P-Series servers launched Linux applications based on the Power architecture, and the i series has also been running on Linux operating systems. At the same time, as an IBM donated one of more than 150 projects of open source organization, the IBM software department plans to donate more than 500,000 relational database code to the Apache Software Foundation. IBM said that it is desirable to accelerate the development of Java applications and drive innovation based on Java applications with an open source DERBY software.
In order to express its confidence in Linux, Oracle has started the entire company's plan for Linux environment last year and launched the "indestructible Linux" program. This year, Oracle has confirmed the important position of Linux throughout the company. Liu Tiandong, director of Director of Linux, China, China, said that Linux is one of the important strategies of Oracle 05 fiscal year. In 2004, Oracle officially established the Linux business unit and established a partnership with AsiaLinux. In China, Oracle has set up two Linux professional technology centers, which are set in Beijing, Shenzhen, and these two R & D institutions have more than 200 professional technicians.
Compared with IBM and Oracle, HP has more legacy issues on UNIX servers, but Linux's unsubstituted momentum, so that HP has to admit that Linux has become the most important growth initiative of HP. Martin Fink, vice president of HP, said that the current operating income from Linux has reached 2.5 billion US dollars. Martin Fink also said that HP attaches great importance to Linux development, HP has 6,500 Linux service professionals, and has established partnerships with the world's main Linux manufacturers, including Red Hat, Novell, SUSE, ASIALINUX, TURBOLINUX, and Zhongke Red Flag At the same time, HP attaches great importance to the development of industry ISV and proposes a Linux ISV program.
LINUX development opportunity
In this year's LinuxWorld, all major companies have, in addition to ever promotion Linux, in addition to mature applications in corporate information, IBM, Oracle, Novell also emphasize that Linux development is an important trend - modular implementation .
With the development of IT technology, users are getting higher and higher, they want more flexible deployment of their own hardware and software devices, rather than being controlled by a supplier. "Users choose Intel or AMD processors, select any supplier's SAN, NAS storage solution, select standardized network technology, and drive these hardware products through the open platform Linux to form a standardized high-speed solution." Oracle Liu Tiandong, director of LINUX Division, China, believes that Linux is a bridge that realizes standardized application.
Open calculations advocated by IBM are also required, providing users with considerable flexibility, implement modular integration and maintaining supplier independence, ie hardware has standardized plugs and card interfaces, various communication parts and programming interface soft implementation standardization.
"The Linux that can be implemented is very safe to the user." SUSE CTO Juergen Geck believes that the biggest challenge of global IT development is manageability, and the best management method can be found through the open source technology of Linux. .
Juergen Geck also pointed out that the next development trend in Linux will be Linux virtualization and the development of embedded Linux, Linux scalability, which can be further reflected.
Domestic Linux vendor loss performance
Although Linux has made great progress in the past year, although Linuxworld, the United States, the entire industry is excited because of the pursuit of many server manufacturers, but has to admit that this LinuxWorld exhibition conducted in China is done due to domestic Related companies, including some important companies, is not so busy. This year's LinuxWorld can be said to be a collective performance of a multinational company.
A person from the domestic Linux manufacturer said to the reporter that participating in LinuxWorld must bear a small expenditure, and compared with the foreign giants, the domestic Linux company is at the starting stage, the sachets must be The reality.
In addition, multinational companies participate in LinuxWorld more is a kind of image propaganda, and domestic companies are more likely to find more substantially significant business opportunities, so exhibiting is not large, but therefore lost their words in this stage. In fact, compared with IBM, HP and Oracle a year billion in related income, my country's Linux market is only more than 6,000 million yuan. During this period of LinuxWorld, the New Year of the Domestic Linux Enterprise has created a partnership with Novell, and both parties will establish a deep partnership in two aspects of technology and market. Novell will provide the development of technical assistance to the development of Linux products to create an open source, as well as helping to create a "software architect" training work. A total of open sources of a certain industry background and customer base relationship will help Novell accelerate the pace of industry entry.
Novell and Creative Open Source Representatives represent a thinking of Linux companies at home and abroad, multinational companies have extensive experience in technology development and productivity, and domestic enterprises have a unique advantage in the market. In fact, before this, there is already Oracle, Japan Miracle Linux Co., Ltd., SUN Cooperation, Sun and Soft Cooperation and TurboLinux and Duty Software.
From: HC Network Electronics Industry Channel
