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CHART OF THE DAY: In Case You Had Any Doubts About Where Microsoft’s Profit Comes From
“Microsoft is the largest, most profitable software company in the world.
And its profits are still being generated by the same engines that have driven Microsoft for years: Office, Windows, and its server division. (Meanwhile, its entertainment and devices division is only recently profitable again, and its online division is a money pit.)”
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“At this point, just catching up would be a leap forward.
From 2008 to 2009, Microsoft’s slice of the smartphone operating-system market shrank from 13.1 percent to 10.7 percent. Meanwhile, Apple grew from 9.1 to 14.4 percent, and Google’s Android system started with half a percent and grew to 3.5 percent, according to IDC. Research In Motion (RIM), maker of the BlackBerry, rose to 19.6 percent from 15.6 percent.”
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Who Is Developing KVM Linux Virtualization? — ServerWatch.com
“He said that after examining the project’s mailing list to gauge the activity taking place in KVM development, he found that there were some 884 unique participants in the mailing list, roughly equivalent to the number of active KVM developers. Those participants were spread across 382 unique address domains from somewhere in the range of 250 to 300 separate. According to Day, organizations that participate in KVM range from large corporations, to government and educational organization, as well as individual contributors.”
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Very interesting article about IBM and KVM.
Now if only Oracle would recognize KVM. They are in an “interesting” situation. They have ~5 virtualiztion technologies, and fork RHEL for their Oracle Enterprise Linux.
How long can they keep that up, when RHEL 6 is coming at 4Q2010?
I think thought that Brian Stevens from Red Hat said, that they had made Xen into a kernel modules for RHEL6.