On August 24, 2004, the Linux World CHINA 2004 conference hosted by IDG will be held in Beijing. This means that experienced 5 years of technical accumulation and market baptism, Linux research and development and application are gradually getting out of the "low income, low investment" vicious circle, and start to get rid of "Lei Yong, the rain". Sorrow.
Since 2004, Linux professional support service market continues to heat up. In enterprise-class applications, Linux has played an increasingly important role. TiVo Inc. of the "Personal Interactive Television" of Nasdaq listed companies in the United States has taken the lead in using the Linux server of the United States Pogo Linux, providing new video on-demand services in the United States to more than 1.5 million users. Each TIVO user's set-top box automatically logs in to TIVO to run the Linux operating system several times, download information about drain, promotion, and upgrade the client software, thus proposing the stability and security of the server High requirements. The server running the Linux operating system provided by Pogo Linux is now a scratch. Stabilizing high quality on-demand services have made Tivo's continuously growing user groups, which also makes Tivo Inc's stock market value of more than $ 300 million.
Under the vigorous promotion and encouragement of major manufacturers, in the dispute between antitrust and piracy, the governments of Microsoft Zi more time to turn to Linux's arms. First, there are Norwegian second largest cities to integrate old Windows and UNIX servers with Linux Enterprise Server, and then the German Munich government announced that its 14,000 municipal computers will be converted from the Windows platform to the Linux platform, Japan AIST (Japan National Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Research The hospital also chose Linux NetWorx cluster technology to build Japan's largest network engineering. In China, Asianux 1.0 developed by the Hongqi Software and Japanese Company has also been introduced.
Some people say that because Linux source open features are not strong in ordinary users, Linux's main service objects should be government and businesses. And this year, major PC manufacturers actively use Linux as the trend of its product operating system, clearly effectively reversed people's views.
On May 4, 2004, the world's largest Linux company Red Hat announced that the "Red Hat Desktop" desktop operating system for desktop computers, providing a simpler Linux solution for personal computer users. Instead of each of the major multinational PC manufacturers have pre-installed Novell Suse Linux 9.1 operating systems and Open Office software in their new products. In August, six domestic computer manufacturers, including Lenovo, Founder and other large PC manufacturers will try to install the Linux operating system in PC products.
The rich Linux of the Microsoft Windows platform is prone to people in the field of application.
On May 17 this year, my country's independent research and development of office software "Yongzhong Office" 2004 version of China has achieved global synchronous listing in Sino-Japanese United States. On June 9, Jinshan Company announced the launch cross-platform office software that can be run on the Linux and Windows platform - WPS Office Hurricane. The launch of these software further compensates for the regret of the lack of Chinese office software on the Linux platform.
In the general application, June this year, the US Real launched a media player that can run on Linux RealPlayer 10.7 on 19, Linux Vendor Linspire issued a VoIP function in Gaim Instant Communication Client software. Software - PhoneGaim. Digital Image Field Giant Adobe Although it has not launched large image processing software that can run in Linux operating system, Adobe Reader adapting to open source environments has also been developed, making the PDF file that has become electronic document standards can be read on Linux. Flash Format Sports Media Developers Macromedia issued a Flash player for the Linux platform, and announced that the Flash content development tool that can be launched in the Linux platform. More and more software vendors have developed similar, available for software based on Windows platform software, will allow users to use the Linux operating system to make the technical threshold greatly reduced.
Compared to Microsoft Sproducts compared to the desktop and server operating system, the use of Linux in the field of embedded operating systems can be described as unlimited.
At the time of the 3G era, Datang Telecom set Linux as an embedded operating system of its TD-SCDMA network phone. After giving up the Symbian camp, Motorola's smartphone has used Linux, such as the market reflects good business mobile phones A760, A768. June 23, A768, Samsung Electronics announced to make the next mobile phone to achieve higher performance and cost effectiveness Will introduce a NAND Flash solution based on a Linux system.
In consumer electronics, Linux is also favored by major manufacturers with its lower development costs and higher development speeds. The consumer electron Linux Forum made by Hitachi, NEC, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony and Toshiba and another more than 50 members have been released for the first Linux patch to promote the Linux operating system in consumption. Application in electronic equipment. A development trend at the current consumer electronic device is to use operating systems and other software to perform playback audio and managing digital media. By using these patches, developers can be greatly simplified when developing new software products. At present, Sharp's PDA, Panasonic set top box and Tivo digital video recorder use Linux's embedded operating system.
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IT Age Weekly
