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Canonical on October 7 announced its latest Ubuntu 10.10 operating system and Ubuntu Light for netbooks, and noted that consumers should be able to see Ubuntu Light-featured netbooks appearing in the channel within a month. Taiwan notebook makers expect Dell to be the first brand vendor to launch related netbooks, as among all notebook vendors, Dell currently has the biggest number of PC products that are pre-installed with Ubuntu. However, Canonical declined to comment on the speculation.
Ubuntu Light only requires a boot-up time of seven seconds, and features several basic functions such as Internet browsing and e-mail processing. Meanwhile, the operating system (OS) shares the same file format as Windows 7 to allow easier data access between the two systems.
As for the prices of products featuring Ubuntu Light, Canonical only pointed out that they will be decided by brand vendors. But notebook makers believe the prices are unlikely to see significant differences compared to those of Windows 7-only machines and should be attractive to consumers.
Acer, at its new netbook launch press conference, noted that the company plans to adopt dual-operating systems (Windows 7 and Android) as one of the standard specifications for its future dual-core netbooks, according to sources from Acer.
Since adopting Google's operating system does not cost much, but will provide more efficiency to its consumers, the strategy is expected to stimulate demand.
Acer has announced its new dual-core Aspire One netbooks in Taiwan with four color choices of blue, green, red and purple, targeting the young and fashionable consumer group. The netbooks will feature Intel's Atom 550 processor as well as Android.
Acer Taiwan president Scott Lin, at the conference, citied figures from Gartner and pointed out that netbooks will not be replaced by tablet PCs, and global netbook shipments for 2010 will reach 36 million units, and will grow even higher to 50 million in 2014.
As for Acer, the company is aiming to ship 40 million notebooks in 2010 with 10 million being netbooks. Acer is confident of achieving the goal and will continue its lead in the netbook market, Lin noted.
OpenOffice's future was doomed from the day when Oracle acquired SUN Microsystems. The eventuality became even more obvious when they pulled the plug on OpenSolaris. Thankfully, OpenOffice is an open source software and leading contributors of the original project has forked OpenOffice and the new project will be called LibreOffice.
Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth announced that, future releases of Ubuntu will be shipped with the new OpenOffice fork. He said, "Office productivity software is a critical component of the free software desktop, and the Ubuntu Project will be pleased to ship LibreOffice from The Document Foundation in future releases of Ubuntu."
There are right and wrong ways of doing everything and a Swiss canton did several things wrong:
* They let M$ lock-in their data in a database
* They danced to public pressure from rebels
* They did not fire the rebels and hire more flexible people
* They should have been a tad more diploamtic in the introduction
The result has been after several years, a decision to migrate to “7″ on the desktop with no guarantee it will be any less difficult.
I have done a bunch of migrations and they all worked. One does not dictate. That results in push-back. One demonstrates the advantages and reasonable people prefer the change to the status quo. The Swiss decision to migrate to GNU/Linux was made in 2001 when the GNU/Linux desktop was not clearly as capable as it is today and they continued to use M$’s database. It should have been the first thing to migrate. 9 years later, the hole is that much deeper. On top of that a bunch of fhings went wrong like bankruptcies of suppliers. They may well have been better off to have developed the necessary talent in-house. They had the time.
Munich had some of the same problems but they kept working and are arriving late but under-budget. Munich discovered they had more problems than the OS, a fragmented IT system barely able to interoperate with itself. They used their extra time to tune everything up. GNU/Linux is now icing on the cake, a solid cake filled with fuit and nuts, not an “air-cake”. Solothurn, it seems, had similar problems it did not address. The cause of the failure was a failure to plan portable/open-standards-based IT in the first place and not fixing the problems first.
The one thing I have learned about IT is that a migration to GNU/Linux is always possible and worthwhile in the long run. Sometimes it is a long run because there are so many problems but fixing one problem at a time works. You can either fix the whole system in a provably-correct method developed in advance in detail or you can fix one problem at a time as fast as you can do it. If you always opt for open standards, the end-result will be the same but the latter will cost you a lot less time and energy and money. Trying to keep closed systems and lock-in is a recipe for disaster sooner or later.
"A small but significant defeat for Linux or an example of poor management that can hit any IT project?
The reported evidence points firmly to the latter, not least because an unspecified number of the open source and free software applications will still be retained."
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