Archive for the OS Category
EMEA outsourcing to generate $90.9 bln by 2009
IT outsourcing revenue in Europe, the Middle East and Africa will rise from $58 bln in 2003 to $90.9 bln in 2009 at a compound annual growth rate of 6.8%. Infrastructure and application outsourcing co...
60% of PCs sold through retail stores now run Media Center OS
PCs running Windows XP Media Center OS now dominate the market, accounting for 60% of desktops sold in US retail, Current Analysis says....
Chinese Linux market reached $11.8 mln in 2005
According to IDC, China's Linux market revenue reached $11.8 mln in 2005, up 27.1% over 2004. 2005 saw a steady growth in the China Linux market, brought about mainly by the huge volume of government ...
40% of data centers run healthy mix of Unix, Linux and Windows
40% of IT managers surveyed by Gartner said their data centers comprised mainframes running Unix, Linux and Windows. 14% said they had a mainframe with just Unix and Windows, 4% were running Windows o...
Mobile OS market shares in 2005: Symbian – 51%, Linux – 23%, Windows – 17%
Symbian had 51% market share of the mobile OS market at the end of 2005, down from 56% in 2004, The Diffusion Group says. Linux came in second at 23%, which was double its 2004 share of 11.3%. Microso...
Embedded Linux to generate $100 mln in 2005
Embedded Linux is on the path to become a $100 million market in 2005, according to Venture Development Corp....
Symbian phone shipments up 191% in the first half of 2005
Q2 2005 shipments of Symbian OS phones tripled YTY to reach 7.8 mln (in Q2 2004 only 2.6 mln). Total shipments of Symbian OS phones for the first half of the 2005 totalled 14.5 mln (in H1 2004 only 5....
Linux revenues to grow at 64% a year in China
According to IDC, Linux server operating environment (SOE) revenues are forecast to account for 6.1% of the entire SOE market in China in 2005. IDC forecasts Linux SOE revenue in China will reach $19....
Enterprise server OS market shares: Windows – 65-70%, Linux – 15-20%
Windows commands 65-70% of the corporate server operating system market, while the Linux share stands at 15-20%. Currently, Linux server shipments represent the fastest-growing segment of the market, ...
1% of corporate PC users run Linux desktops
1% of enterprise customers run Linux desktops, Gartner says. By 2008 the number will reach 3.2%....
Smart device OS market shares: Symbian – 62.8%, Microsoft – 15.9%, PalmSource – 9.5%
Canalys Research presented data on operating system market shares in smart device market. Before Canalys estimated global smart device shipments in Q2 2005.Worldwide smart mobile device market in Q2 2...
Linux deployments in retail business up 34% in 2004
According to IHL Consulting Group, Linux deployments in retail increased 34% in 2004 over 2003. Driven by new market entrants and the rising popularity of Linux, the average cost of a point of sale sy...
Mobile device OS shares: Symbian – 55.9%, Windows – 12.7%, Linux – 11.3%
According to IDC, Symbian dominates the converged mobile device operating system market with a 55.9% share in 2004. Symbian's share of this market is expected to grow to nearly 60% in 2009. Microsoft ...
Smartphone OS shares: Symbian – 76.2%, Linux – 13.7%, PalmOS – 4.6%, Windows – 4.5%, RIM – 1.0%
Embedded Linux powered 13.7% of smartphones shipped worldwide in Q1 2005, up 412% from 3.4% in Q1 2004, according to Gartner. Windows Mobile smaprtphone shipments also grew, rising 50% from 2.9% in Q1...
21% of Japanese companies and 33% of US companies use open source OS
21% of Japanese companies are currently using open source operating systems, while 22% either have plans to deploy, or are considering plans to deploy them, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communicat...
Linux market share reaches 1.1% in Australia
IDC Australia surveyed resellers, small and medium businesses and consumers in regards to their plans on Linux operating system. 1.7% of consumer said they used Linux on notebooks, 1.1% of small and m...
Linux servers grew 36% in Canada in 2004
IDC Canada said Canadian server market for Linux grew more than 36% in 2003-2004, beating the Windows server market's growth of about 27% for the same timespan....
In Q1 2005 48% of business PCs ran Windows 2000, 38% ran Windows XP, 10% ran Windows NT
A study of corporate operating system usage by AssetMetrix shows that Windows XP use surged to 38% by Q1 2005, up from 6.6% in Q3 2003. However, the popularity of Windows 2000 has remained high, with ...
53% of North American companies use Linux
Linux use was reported in 53% of the 500 North American companies surveyed by SG Cowen & Co, TechWeb reports. 7% of the respondents planned to adopt Linux, which was the "most modest" level the compan...
Linux server sales reached $1.2 bln in Q1 2005
Linux server revenue exceeded $1.2 bln in Q1 2005 as Linux server revenues showed 35.2% growth, IDC says. Worldwide investment in Linux servers for both technical and commercial workloads remains stro...
Patching Windows system costs 14% less than open source client
Patching a Windows client system costs 14% less than patching a comparable open-source client machine, Wipro study of 90 companies said. The total for patching a Windows database server is 33% less th...
Only 7% of companies officially run Service Pack 2
AssetMetrix Research Labs released the results of a survey of 251 North American companies, measuring the adoption of Windows XP Service Pack 2. Only 7% of companies had actively embraced Windows XP S...
Only 27% of mid-size business run Linux
Info-Tech Research Group surveyed 1,400 IT executives of mid-size companies (less than $1 bln in revenues) regarding their plans on Linux. 27% of respondents currently have Linux installed. Almost hal...
88% of companies think Windows has the same or better quality than Linux
88% of companies interviews by Yankee Group say that quality, performance and reliability of Windows is just as good or better than in Linux. On a scale of 1 to 10, companies rated Microsoft's securi...