Linux Market to Exceed $35 Billion by 2008
16 Dec 2004
The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global consortium dedicated
to accelerating the adoption of Linux in the enterprise, yesterday
announced the completion of a global Linux market share and forecast
study conducted by market research firm IDC that predicts the overall
market revenue for desktops, servers, and packaged software running
on Linux will exceed $35 billion by 2008.
The new study presents a measurement of shipments and the installed
base of servers and PCs running Linux that takes into consideration
Linux shipped with new hardware deliveries, Linux running aboard
redeployed systems, and instances where Linux is used as a guest
operating system. When this expanded view of the marketplace is
considered, the resulting server market for shipments and redeployments
with Linux is increased by 36% over net new shipments in 2004.
Another key finding of interest to independent software vendors
and customers is predicted revenue growth for packaged applications
and infrastructure software running on Linux, a market opportunity
IDC forecasts will exceed $14 billion in the next four years, growing
at a 2003-2008 compound annual rate of more than 44 percent.
"This is the first authoritative and comprehensive snapshot
of how people truly use Linux and it's not surprising for us to
see that the adoption is far ahead of even some of the most optimistic
estimates," said Stuart Cohen, CEO of OSDL.
A summary of the IDC report is available on the OSDL
website.
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Mozilla Foundation Places Two-Page Ad in NY
Times
16th December 2004
The Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to
preserving choice and promoting innovation on the Internet, yesterday
announced that it has placed a two-page ad in the December 16th
edition of the New York Times.
The ad, coordinated by Spread Firefox, features the names of the
thousands of people worldwide who contributed to the Mozilla Foundation's
fundraising campaign to support last month's launch of the open
source Mozilla Firefox 1.0 web browser. The published ad can be
found here.
Spread Firefox is the volunteer-run Mozilla advocacy site, with
over 50,000 registered members, where community marketing activities
are organized to raise awareness and to promote the adoption of
Firefox.
According to the Mozilla Foundation, to date, Firefox has been
downloaded by over 11 million people worldwide.
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Google Kicks Off Project Ocean
15th December 2004
Google Inc,
recently announced that it is working with the libraries of Harvard,
Stanford, the University of Michigan, and the University of Oxford
as well as The New York Public Library to digitally scan books from
their collections so that users worldwide can search them in Google.
The announcement is an expansion of the Google Print program, which
assists publishers in making books and other offline information
searchable online. For users, Google's library program will make
it possible to search across library collections including out of
print books and titles that weren't previously available anywhere
but on a library shelf.
Users searching with Google will see links in their search results
page when there are books relevant to their query. Clicking on a
title delivers a Google Print page where users can browse the full
text of public domain works and brief excerpts and/or bibliographic
data of copyrighted material. Library content will be displayed
in keeping with copyright law.
"Even before we started Google, we dreamed of making the incredible
breadth of information that librarians so lovingly organize searchable
online," said Larry Page, Google co-founder and president of
Products. "Today we're pleased to announce this program to
digitize the collections of these amazing libraries so that every
Google user can search them instantly."
Project Ocean is a pilot project to scan and make searchable the
contents of some of the world's most prestigious libraries.
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