Linux's boom is still warming in China. Following the official lab yesterday MII-HP Linux software laboratory, today, the LinuxWorld China 2004 Seminar and Exhibition hosted by IDG (US International Data Group) was held in Beijing.
Linuxworld is held every year in the United States, UK, Japan, Germany, China. In 2000, LinuxWorld was held in Beijing for the first time, and has been held in Beijing. In just a few years, Linux has made great progress in the server field, desktop field and embedded areas, gradually entering the mainstream application market. The theme of LinuxWorld China 2004 is: Linux - stabilite of corporate information application.
At the meeting, HP, IBM, ORACLE, BEA and other manufacturers, through the subject speeches, trend exploration, application experience, etc., fully show Linux technology, products, solutions, and successful application cases, looking forward to Linux development prospects.
At this conference, IDG also held an international Linux certification exam with LPI China - LPI certification exam. This is the first large-scale Linux user and enthusiasts to promote the LPI certification exam.
According to IDC's statistics in 2003, the sales of Linux servers has exceed UNIX servers, and the market share reaches 16%, and reaches 17% in the first quarter of 2004, it becomes a second largest operating system in the server field. IDC also predicts that Linux will grow at 25% per year in the next few years, and China's Linux market will maintain a growth rate of about 40%. IDC is expected that by 2005, the global Linux market will reach $ 14 billion.
The Linux market has grown rapidly and comes. But Linux is currently mainly used in the server field, in the personal desktop field, Windows still has unmovable monopoly. At the same time, we must also see that the IDC data also shows that last year Microsoft Windows still accounted for 63% of the market in the server field, and this year's first quarter reached 65%.
Moreover, for the cheap and security promoted by Linux, Microsoft also puts forward its own countermeasures. Microsoft began to launch cheap WinXP in some countries. Recently released WinXP SP2, and the security cards were released. Linux wants to break the monopoly of Windows, and there is a very long way to go. Source: enet
