Linux's performance is not as good as people think, which is revealed by a new research report for market research institutions VDC (VentureDevelopmentCorp).
Retail system Linux only 2
% VDC senior analyst, one of the authors of the report, said that there is too much discussion around Linux, too many news, of course, there is still too much exaggeration. "According to VDC's investigation of retail industry president It was found that Linux products accounted for less than 2% in the POS (sales outlet) system, compared with it, Microsoft Windows accounted for 43%, and other various personalized operating systems with intellectual property accounted for 19%, IBM (main Is AS / 400) accounted for 17%, UNIX products accounted for 9%, and other 10%.
Rener said, "I have expected that Linux may account for 5% of the retail system market, but the facts are worse, Linux still has a long way to go in this field."
Another author of the report, VDC analyst Taylor Smith also feels unexpectedly for Linux. He said, "I am surprised, I thought that Linux should have a little good performance. Now people talk about the most Linux, but it is clear that the dominance of Windows in the next five years is not allowed to shake."
Smith said that Linux still has a lot of opportunities to enter the retail system, further expanding the application. We have reason to believe that the retail POS system will further upgrade in the next year to two years. First, the UPC (commodity barcode) used in the US retail industry will rise to 13 in the current 12 digits, so the retail owners will work on new operations. The system is reassessive.
Is the barcode coexisting with RFID?
The report also analyzes other techniques of the retail system. Sales related to the commodity barcode last year broke through $ 76 million, and it is expected that sales from now until 2007 will grow at a rate of 11%. The VDC research also found that the personalized self-use software developed by barcode software products and customers has approximately half of the retail system (53% to 47%).
Smith said that the biggest problem that commodity barcode will face is how to achieve data synchronization. The retail owners found that it has made great efforts to achieve data synchronization, but still produce some errors. As retailers accelerate the establishment of a commodity inspection system, this problem will inevitably be more serious.
Another data synchronization problem is related to wireless RF technology. Although the widespread use of wireless RF technology (RFID) products require a few years, the speed of RF technology will be faster and faster. Rard said that the challenges faced by data synchronization are not the problem of how barcodes transition to RFID, but the two technologies are coexisted for a long time.
Although the retail giants are committed to pushing RFID, such as Martte has used RFID in 2005, but Rade said that the possibility of using RFID in 2005 is still not large.
Barcode still has a growth space
Although the barcode is no longer new, its application space remains to be developed. A North American UPC action called "2005" has to expand the current 12-bit barcode to 13. European retailers have expanded the barcode to 14, mainly because the barcodes are very frequently used in European countries.
Renerd said, "Due to some unrealistic exaggerated and wrong market information, end users are misleaded in RFID technology." He added that RFIF will be a good complement of barcodes, but it will not replace, " The use of barcodes did not develop to the end. "
Another problem with VDC is concerned that RFID is limited in installation. Rard said, "Every installation of RFID is unique in nature, because there is no two warehouse is exactly the same." Accurate reading data is a problem, and there is an antenna arrangement and its own configuration. Question, etc.
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