You'll never see people standing in line for Linux anything... or so far any other tablet product... and that's in China!
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iPad Beats Linux Desktops
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LOL!
OF course because Linux doesn't spend millions advertising like Apple.
Again Apples & Oranges.....
Different paradigm at play here.
Didn't they teach you that at business school???
OF course because Linux doesn't spend millions advertising like Apple.
Again Apples & Oranges.....
Different paradigm at play here.
Didn't they teach you that at business school???
How to have a free product that's unsuccessful.... no, not a big focus at business school....LOL!
OF course because Linux doesn't spend millions advertising like Apple.
Again Apples & Oranges.....
Different paradigm at play here.
Didn't they teach you that at business school???
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Oh please, not that hoary old excuse! Desktop Linux has lost its shot at being anything close to mainstream.
Not at all but you know something has failed when you can't even give it away..... clearly something wrong with the model.Nice dodge!
Guess altruism is frowned upon there, eh....
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Linux still beat Apple here
Then why or how did Linux beat out Apple in this chart bottie???
Apparently some companies are making money on Linux, but it certainly isn't free. From;
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_05/b3918001_mz001.htm
How do companies benefit from free software? In several different ways. Distributors, including Red Hat Inc. (RHAT ) and Novell Inc., (NOVL ) package Linux with helpful user manuals, regular updates, and customer service, and then charge customers annual subscription fees for all the extras. Those fees range from $35 a year for a basic desktop version of Linux to $1,500 for a high-end server version. The dollars can add up. Red Hat, which employs 200 programmers, is expected to see profits triple, to $53 million, in its current fiscal year, as revenues surge 56%, to $195 million.
Those numbers are dwarfed by the winnings for computer makers that sell PCs and servers preloaded with Linux. IBM, HP, and others capitalize on the ability to sell machines without any up-front charge for an operating-system license, which can range up to several thousand dollars for some versions of Windows and Unix. At HP, sales of servers that run the Linux operating system hit nearly $3 billion during the past fiscal year, almost double the tally three years ago.
In the Linux community, this kind of red-meat capitalism is combined with the sharing philosophy of the open-source movement. Dick Porter, a T-shirted coder who often works under an apple tree in his garden in Wales, is on the same team with Jim Stallings, a hard-charging ex-Marine who travels the world making deals for IBM. What they have in common is a keen interest in making Linux ever more capable. The result is a culture that's cooperative, meritocratic -- and Darwinian at the same time. Any company or person is free to participate in Linux Inc., and those with the most to offer win recognition and prominent roles. "Linux is the first natural business ecosystem," says James F. Moore, a senior fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.
How is it that Apples share of small business market has increased to almost 4.5% (2008), up from ~2.5% of the market and still growing, while Linux seems to be wallowing at around 3%?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/2639200...ets/t/macs-continue-gain-home-business-share/
Even more recent figures show that Apple computers, not including iPads, grew even more. Apparently MacBook Air is still a hit, not a failure as some have claimed over and over and over.
From; http://www.businessinsider.com/the-apple-investor-jan-14-2011-1
Gartner and IDC released preliminary fourth quarter personal computer shipment data and it paints an abysmal outlook for PC makers with the exception of Apple. According to Gartner's report, Apple grabbed 9.7% market share, up significantly from a 7.4% the prior year. Apple's U.S. Mac shipments grew 24% year-over-year, probably boosted by the new MacBook Air. And that number doesn't even include iPads. According to IDC, Apple's U.S. shipments grew 15.2% year-over-year with 8.7% market share.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-apple-investor-jan-14-2011-1#ixzz1LmTRSXdO
Woodie will of course reject these facts.
Linux has its place in the enterprise.. But not in small business. Its scalability over products by MS make it ideal for running web services, LAMP, Drupal, Oracle, SAP etc. The talent to run it is pricier and less ubiquitous than your average paper MCSE who solves things with Google and MSDN searches.
Oh really? Can you write a cogent argument for this "freedom" from what blackrock has posted?
Not really.
It just makes my point on the freedom Linux has always offered....
What bleeding edge "developmental action"? All I keep hearing about is how all those "thought leaders" at developers' conferences are now using MBPs and OS X for the development work.
Here's just a few grasshopper...
http://bleedingedgelinux.blogspot.com/2011/04/were-giving-away-qualcomm-msm8660.html
http://fedoranext.wordpress.com/
http://www.linuxinsight.com/living-on-the-bleeding-edge-debian-wheezy-sid.html
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6989/1
http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2011021601135RVDB
http://xfs.org/index.php/Getting_the_latest_source_code
http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/linux/run/ch01_04.htm
http://www.horde.org/apps
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories
http://www.linuxinsight.com/
Guess you Apple fanbois don't get out much being locked up tight on a leash in Stevo's basement....:eyebrows:
Actually most of them companies you list use Linux servers for their superior security and economical stable performance. Your using a Linux server right now here on TERB. Most businesses use Linux servers for the same reasons....
And I guess you don't read much:
First link - looking at a couple of dates simply talks about updates to drivers, bug fixes and so on. Hardly bleeding edge.
Second link just lists developments for the Fedora distro...only about FOUR posts since the blog began almost a year ago.
Am not going to bother with the rest because it's just more of you blowing smoke. Either that or you have no clue what is meant by "bleeding edge".
Your post #54 was blown out of the water so start writing.
Post #54 will do that grasshopper.
Take along your sock puppet grasshooper to....
Like I say nibs you must not get out much.
Went right over your head.....
You appear more tech challenged than I thought....
Went right over your head.....
You appear more tech challenged than I thought....
Stop dancing around; if you can't do it then shut up.
Like I say nibs you must not get out much.
Went right over your head.....
You appear more tech challenged than I thought....
