¡¡¡¡2007 is an unusual year for the IT industry, also, a breaking and onrushing year for open source software represented by Linux. Looking back at the past 2007, open source campaign has won increasing recognition and support.
At the server market where Linux first broke, the market share of Linux maintained the ascending trend; while good news also came from the desktop market, where Linux met its Waterloo. The top 3 OEM computer giants in the world lent their hands of cooperation to Linux. Dell took a lead to debut the notebook pre-installed the Ubuntu Linux 7.04 operating system, and planned to continue this cooperation, which also drove the upsurge of Linux pre-installation among OEM computer giants. More than that, with the warm-up of cheap notebook market, Linux gradually broke the ice at the desktop market.
¡¡¡¡At the browser market, facing the overwhelming pressure from Microsoft IE browser, Mozilla¡¯s Firefox browser has seized a share at the market. The continuous progress of FireFox V3.0 development will also help the open source browser gain more popularity.
¡¡¡¡The extensive application of free open source software in embedment made Linux become one of the mainstream embedded operating systems.
Though currently few cellphones use Linux operating system, driven by Android, a Linux-based open mobile software platform which is launched by Google, and the setup of mobile alliance, the outstanding play of Linux in the mobile field can be expected soon.
¡¡¡¡Breakthrough and development have become the key words in this year¡¯s Linux and open source campaign. Let¡¯s just review the inspiring year: numerous news events emerge in endlessly. Some of them have profound influence on the development of open source and Linux, some concern the flourish of one or several open source enterprises, some are inspring, maybe some arouse concerns:
Dell edged to Linux upon the request of thousands of users
Red Hat recommended the latest Linux and initiated the partner program
MySQL marched towards enterprise market and opened new battlefield in China
2007 software innovation summit held in Beijing
Nokia embraced Linux and decided to take the open source road
Foreign patent door: war on intellectual property resumed
Ubuntu: Feisty Fawn came into being
Microsoft waved patent-lawsuit stick; open source society will goes all out to beat back
When Gate¡¯s 10th Chinese visit encountered anti-trust protest
Google developer day: insist on open and commit to technical feast
LUPA 2nd Anniversary: "uphold open source thwart pirate"
16-year wait sees GPLv3 Agreement of substantial changes
Asianux Asian Strategy: Redflag ignites "open source storm"
Sun¡¯d launch of Solaris binary code stole the show of Linux
LinuxWorld: more eyeballs on open source /virtual technology
Dell/ Lenovo enbraces Linux and guides OEM towards open source
Red Hat changed CEO for China Area and tried to be Chinese open source leader
Standards war: Microsoft OOXML lost in ballot and intended to resume it at the beginning of the coming year
World software freedom day: open source is spreading
2nd anniversary of LUPA open source community: open source is a culture
Microsoft¡¯s lost in anti-trust suit brought new opportunities to open source development
IBM launched new ¡°future desktop¡± campaign by challenging Microsoft with open source
Microsoft brought Linux ¡°infringement¡± up again, never gave up beating open source
Ubuntu7.10 debut Linux martched towards main stream continuously
Open source FireFox grasped the market and expected to hold a market share of over 30% next year
New survey on global Linux users: heavy gains at desktop market
One-year cooperation between Microsoft and Novell: unexpected cooperative effects
Google boosted the application of open source technology¡ªrelease of Gphone
LUPA sponsored 08Linux developer symposium
Oracle entered the virtual market with open source Oracle VM
Adobe embraced open source and announced that Flex had officially opened its source
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