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Marc Lijour

IDC - Press Release - prUS22592710 - 0 views

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FLOSS IT market marketshare server software t08

shared by Marc Lijour on 23 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Linux server demand also improved in 3Q10, with revenue growing 32.6% to $2.1 billion when compared with the third quarter of 2009. Linux servers now represent 17.5% of all server revenue, up 2.6 points over 3Q09.
  • Marc Lijour on 23 Jan 11
     
    Linux server demand also improved in 3Q10, with revenue growing 32.6% to $2.1 billion when compared with the third quarter of 2009. Linux servers now represent 17.5% of all server revenue, up 2.6 points over 3Q09.
Marc Lijour

Linux Is on the Rise For Business - PCWorld Business Center - 1 views

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linux windows microsoft migration FLOSS business IT management adoption t08

shared by Marc Lijour on 26 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • according to a report released Tuesday by the Linux Foundation in partnership with Yeoman Technology Group. With data from an invited pool of more than 1900 respondents, the survey found that 76 percent of the world's largest organizations plan to add more Linux servers over the next 12 months. By contrast, only 41 percent plan to add Windows servers, while 44 percent say they will be decreasing or maintaining the same number of Windows machines over the next year.
  • Large companies are planning to increase their reliance on Linux over the next five years
  • Looking out over five years, the difference is even more marked: A full 79 percent plan to add Linux servers over that time, while only 21 percent will add new Windows servers.
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  • To understand Linux trends among the world's largest companies and government organizations, Yeoman and The Linux Foundation focused in particular on responses from a subset of close to 400 respondents representing organizations with annual revenues of $500 million or more or greater than 500 employees.
  • Sixty-six percent of the planned Linux deployments mentioned by respondents are for brand-new applications or services, while 37 percent are migrations from Windows, the survey found.
  • "We are seeing more migration at Microsoft's expense than the industry analysis might lead you to believe," McPherson noted.
  • Since Linux is free, sales-linked estimates tend to underestimate its adoption considerably.
  • this survey involves some sample bias
  • the data isn't tied to server sales the way so much industry data is
  • a full 60 percent of respondents said they're planning to use Linux for more mission-critical workloads than they have in the past
  • Lack of vendor lock-in and openness of the code were other frequently cited drivers
  • long-term viability of the platform
  • choice of software and hardware
  • n cloud contexts, meanwhile, Linux led far and away, with 70 percent naming it as their primary platform, compared with 18 percent citing Windows and 11 citing Unix
  • Marc Lijour on 26 Jan 11
     
    according to a report released Tuesday by the Linux Foundation in partnership with Yeoman Technology Group. With data from an invited pool of more than 1900 respondents, the survey found that 76 percent of the world's largest organizations plan to add more Linux servers over the next 12 months. By contrast, only 41 percent plan to add Windows servers, while 44 percent say they will be decreasing or maintaining the same number of Windows machines over the next year.
Marc Lijour

Brevets Novell: la communauté open source attire l'attention de la justice am... - 0 views

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FLOSS novell attachmate patent law mt8316 t08

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  • Marc Lijour on 25 Jan 11
     
    Bonne nouvelle pour les tenants des logiciels libres. La division antitrust du ministère de la Justice américain (Department of Justice) accède à la demande que l'Open Software Initiative (OSI) et la Free Software Foundation (FSF) leur avaient adressée en décembre 2010 concernant le devenir des brevets de Novell. Ce qui ne signifie pas que les deux organismes remportent l'adhésion du DoJ à leurs revendications mais que ce dernier est prêt à leur fournir une oreille attentive. Un premier pas dans la lutte pour la préservation du modèle open source.
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An anthropologist's view of an open source community | opensource.com - 3 views

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FLOSS t08 research master fedora community anthropology

shared by Marc Lijour on 02 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Diana noted that while 75% of the survey respondents in the study agreed that the contributors make up a community, she was more curious what the other 25% thought
  • "Setting up a login, setting up an SSL key, and contributing was a little daunting at first. That process could be simplified," said one interviewee.
  • High on the list of reasons were learning for the joy of learning and collaborating with interesting and smart people. Motivations for personal gain, like networking or career benefits, were low on the list.
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  • Mainly I contribute just to make it work for me.
Marc Lijour

Open Source has no bearing upon Software Security - Community does - Unscrewing Security - 1 views

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FLOSS security linux t08 android iOS iphone quality

shared by Marc Lijour on 24 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • There's no reason to believe that Apple's iPhone iOS is better or worse than Android from a security perspective - at least from the perspective of openness. There may be more fundamental architectural issues to distinguish the platforms but (again) they both have Unix-like heritage, so they both start from a good place.
  • Security quality is disjoint from openness. Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is clearly and famously not less secure than closed / proprietary software - but neither is FOSS necessarily more secure than proprietary.
  • Marc Lijour on 24 Jan 11
     
    There's no reason to believe that Apple's iPhone iOS is better or worse than Android from a security perspective - at least from the perspective of openness. There may be more fundamental architectural issues to distinguish the platforms but (again) they both have Unix-like heritage, so they both start from a good place.
Marc Lijour

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FLOSS IT market software t08 linux RedHat report investment

shared by Marc Lijour on 24 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced financial results for its fiscal year 2011 third quarter ended November 30, 2010. Total revenue for the quarter was $235.6 million, an increase of 21% from the year ago quarter. Subscription revenue for the quarter was $198.8 million, up 21% year-over-year.
  • Marc Lijour on 24 Jan 11
     
    RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced financial results for its fiscal year 2011 third quarter ended November 30, 2010. Total revenue for the quarter was $235.6 million, an increase of 21% from the year ago quarter. Subscription revenue for the quarter was $198.8 million, up 21% year-over-year.
Marc Lijour

HP to Put Linux in Printers and PC's: It's the End of an Era for Windows | Linux.com - 6 views

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linux FLOSS desktop HP hardware PC t08 innovation business strategy

shared by Marc Lijour on 11 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • the worlds largest PC supplier is indicating that they are going to ship PC’s without Windows
  • HP announced that it is going to ship WebOS not only in phones, tablets and printers, but in PC’s as well
  • Perhaps this really IS the year of the Linux desktop.
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  • Linux is the underpinning technology for nearly every sector of the market in every form of computing.
  • analysts predict will be a $30B market for tablets by 2012
  • Linux because it supports more architectures and more devices than any other OS and is freely available and is able to be custom-branded
  • Marc Lijour on 11 Feb 11
     
    the worlds largest PC supplier is indicating that they are going to ship PC's without Windows
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india FLOSS migration adoption case_study t08 public administration kerala

shared by Marc Lijour on 03 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Today, the Project is termed as the "Single largest simultaneous deployment of FOSS based ICT education in the world."
  • The Project functions on Free Software platform since it provides the freedom to an individual to study, copy, modify and re-distribute any content, a process which would ultimately benefit the whole society.
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  • The Director of IT@School, K. Anvar Sadath said, "Building collaboration and sharing practices are essential factors for the well being of societies and proprietary software often deny that."
  • The Kerala IT Education Department believes that sharing is an important virtue. However, sharing a proprietary software would be a violation of the End User License Agreement (EULA).
  • Thinking about the massive cost involved in setting up the IT infrastructure based on Windows, it was better to have the OS and applications realigned for Linux and other free software.
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  • Enabling Linux and FOSS based education in 2,738 high schools brought along its own set of challenges. In the first phase, over 40,000 teachers had to be trained for over 90 hours on Linux based systems.
  • Creating a single curriculum based on GNU/Linux was another issue to counter because there were many distributions of the OS
  • the Free Software Foundation of India suggested developing a custom distribution for IT@School and eventually created the distribution with funding from the Kerala State IT Mission
  • IT@School has managed to get concession on broadband rate for all schools
  • Resources which are available under GPL and Creative Commons can straight away be customised to their requirements. This builds innovation and networking without much financial burden
  • wants Kerala to become a FOSS destination. With 90% literacy rate
Marc Lijour

Forrester Analyst Says Open Source Has Won | Linux.com - 4 views

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FLOSS t08 forrester linux adoption strategy business cloud_computing

shared by Marc Lijour on 20 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Wednesday, 11 August 2010 08:58
  • Open source has crossed the chasm
  • Jeffrey Hammond
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  • Hammond, principle analyst with Forrester Research
  • Hammond says that open source initially wedged its way into enterprise environments based on cost savings
  • Hammond says that we're now seeing the second wave of open source adoption, being driven by improved flexibility to execute and positioning enterprises to grow when the recession ends.
  • Only one in five (21%) developers are not using open source as part of their work.
  • Application servers and operating systems are highest in organizations larger than 20,000 employees.
  • what's more interesting is the "u-shaped" curve where very small and very large organizations show high adoption.
  • Open source databases are outliers, with less adoption in larger companies
  • 30% of developers say that they're using Linux as their primary development OS on Eclipse
  • Ubuntu is leading by far with 17%, all the other Linux combined
  • Deployment numbers are nicer for Linux. 40% are deploying on Linux, 36% on Windows from Eclipse; the Dr. Dobbs survey finds 23% deployment on Linux vs. 57% for Windows-centric developers. In both cases, organizations are deploying more on Linux than ever before.
  • Subversion is the leader with 52%, and Git/GitHub with 6%. Open source is the clear winner in SCM. Git has crept up from 2% to 6%
  • Things happening "outside the firewall" are driving technology, which has empowered developers to change corporate IT culture
  • about 36% of companies don't have a policy regarding deploying and contributing to open source.
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