Uma empresa que detém neste momentouma plataforma que domina 33% do mercado resolve mandar tudo isso para o lixo e fazer uma parceria com os senhores de Redmond, a microsoft, que o máximo que conseguiu neste mercado foi 12% há já bastante tempo (com o anterior sistema operativo windowsCE/mobile) e que hoje somando o seu ms-windows mobile + ms-windows phone 7 não chega aos 5% do mercado.
(Reuters) – Nokia’s smartphone alliance with Microsoft threatens more than 5,000 Finnish research and development jobs at the Finnish company and its subcontractors, a union boss said.
Nokia Oyj, the world’s biggest maker of mobile phones, extended its losses in Helsinki trading after analysts lowered their price estimates and stock ratings.
Nokia declined as much as 4.4 percent and was down 4 percent at 6.72 euros as of 2:12 p.m., bringing its losses to 18 percent since Chief Executive Officer Stephen Elop’s Feb. 11 strategy presentation and paring the Espoo, Finland-based company’s market value to 25.1 billion euros ($34 billion).
JPMorgan Chase & Co. analyst Rod Hall cut his rating to “underweight” from ”overweight” and its price estimate by 41 percent to 5 euros. Analysts at HSBC Holdings Plc lowered their recommendation to “underweight” from ”neutral.”
14 February 2011 – Four brokers have downgraded their recommendations on Finnish mobile-phone maker Nokia Oyj (HEL: NOK1V) after its newly formed tie-up with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT | PowerRating).
But the move drew derision from Google executive Vic Gundotra. “Two turkeys do not make an Eagle.” he tweeted soon after the announcement Friday. Investors were not impressed either, with Nokia’s stock closing down a staggering 14.22 percent at 7.00 euros ($9.48).
Para perceber como esta decisão da Nokia a colocou ou colocará na idade das trevas, nada melhor que ler este artigo de um ex-executivo da empresa que explica tudo muito bem indicando quem tem mais a beneficiar com isto tudo, para além da microsoft numa primeira fase.
Lets start with the obvious. Microsoft wins massively. One of the biggest wins in history. The whole PC industry is singing in chorus that the future of the PC is mobile. Microsoft which built its massive and profitable empire on the PC, was never able to do so in mobile (their peak market share was about 12%, and they currently have 3% but that includes the about-to-be extinct Windows Mobile. Microsoft’s new OS, the one Nokia will adopt, called Phone7 has only 1.5% in Q4. Nokia had 33% for the whole year; Who is the winner here?).
(…) Because of that, Nokia had built a huge competent force in its software and services side, and bought full ownership of Symbian, the world’s most used smartphone OS platform – and had already a near-completed replacement OS for Symbian, called MeeGo (developed with Intel). Now they abandon all that, and take onboard a brand new OS developed by Microsoft that has a miniscule market share, miniscule development community etc. This is not – mind you – that Microsoft Windows Mobile which in the past at one point was the second most widely used OS for smartphones (in the age before the iPhone haha). No, that has been killed.
A microsoft sempre apunhalou e roubou pelas costas os seus parceiros mais frágeis (produtores de software).
The most interesting part of the event came near the end when HP announced that it is going to ship WebOS not only in phones, tablets and printers, but in PC’s as well.In doing so, the worlds largest PC supplier is indicating that they are going to ship PC’s without Windows. For Microsoft – who was nowhere at this event – that has got to hurt. Perhaps this really IS the year of the Linux desktop.
Alguns exemplos das facadinhas nas costas por parte da microsoft encontram-se no artigo “In memoriam: Microsoft’s previous strategic mobile partners”, o mais interessante é que a microsoft em 2009 e por intermédio do sr. Stephen Elop, hoje CEO da Nokia mas naquela altura Microsoft Business Division President, acordou com a Nokia “to bring “Microsoft Office Mobile and Microsoft business communications, collaboration and device management software to Nokia’s Symbian devices.”, escusado será dizer que nada disto ocorreu, pior, ano e meio após este acordo Elop é o CEO da Nokia e acaba com o sistema operativo Symbian maioritário no mercado bem como com o futuro sistema aberto desenvolvido pela Nokia em parceria com a Intel, o MeeGo.
E por falar nas jogadas sujas e facadinhas, a microsoft em conjunto com a Nokia resolvem apunhalar a Intel, uma vez que não a informaram que estavam a pensar abandonar o MeeGo, deixando que a Intel só soubesse que tinha sido encornada no dia em que apresentaram a famosa parceria de perdedores.
Percebe-se a jogada da microsoft, devem estar lixados pela Intel estar a apostar cada vez mais no GNU/Linux quer através do desenvolvimento de drivers para o diverso hardware que desenvolvem quer através da sua aposta no MeeGo.
Para se entender melhor como a microsoft usa e destrói as suas vítimas recomendo a leitura do que aconteceu à Sendo.
Esta frase que faz parte do artigo “First Analysis of Nokia-Microsoft Alliance – Wow this is good for Microsoft”, que já acima tinha mencionado, quase que diz tudo sobre o futuro da Nokia nas mãos de uma empresa que muito pouco ou nada tem para oferecer ao nível da qualidade de software, inovação e competitividade num mercado com diversos players com tecnologia superior, Google Android, Apple iOS, RIM/Blackberry QNX, HP WebOS e a Nokia com os seus Symbian e Maemo/MeeGo.
O futuro da Nokia poderia e deveria ser bem diferente, isto se esta tivesse continuado a apostar nos sistemas que tem in-house, Symbian e Maemo/MeeGo (ainda por cima com o enorme apoio da comunidade de developers de software livre e open source que a compra da Trolltech, criadores da Qt usada quer no MeeGo quer no KDE trouxe; já para não dizer que quer o Symbian quer o Maemo/MeeGo são open source) podendo ainda ter entrado numa parceria com a Google para usar o Android para construir os smartphones Google.
O Maemo/MeeGo que a Intel afirma estar empenhada a continuar a desenvolver é um sistema fabuloso, capaz de correr em arquitectura x86 e ARM, tem ainda mais algumas vantagens, é aberto, tem o apoio da comunidade livre, usa a poderosa Qt, corre software nativo para GNU/Linux, tendo logo à partida milhares de aplicações, só nos repositórios da Debian estão 29000, incluindo o LibreOffice etc bem como pode correr as aplicações do Android como o demonstrou a Myriad com a sua Alien Dalvik.
Ainda em relação ao Android convém ter em conta este projecto, IcedRobot, que poderia também beneficiar a Nokia, caso esta tivesse seguido outro caminho.
“Intel is disappointed at Nokia but life goes on,” said Renee James, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s software and services group, during a press conference. “Our decision and resolve on MeeGo is only stronger.”
She pointed to a long list of companies that are participating in the development of MeeGo including competitors Advanced Micro Devices, Texas Instruments and ST Ericsson; operators including Orange, Telefonica and Sprint; and software companies including Novell and Wind River.
Mas o MeeGo tem ainda outra carta na manga, foi o sistema operativo escolhido por um conjunto de marcas automóveis (BMW, GM, Citroen, Peugeot, Hyundai entre muitas outras) para formarem a aliança GENIVI cujo objectivo é levar a uma larga adopção do In-Vehicle Infotainment.
E o Software Livre?
Tendo em conta que a Intel e seus parceiros, quer da mesma indústria como a AMD, Nvidia etc, quer da indústria automóvel entre outras mantém o interesse no MeeGo, até porque isso é estratégico para a Intel e AMD em virtude do seu combate com os cpus ARM, a questão mais preocupante poderá ter a ver com o que irá acontecer à fabulosa framework Qt que a Nokia adquiriu há algum tempo atrás e que colocou sob diversas licenças livres, incluindo a GPLv2, LGPL e GPLv3.
Qt will continue to play an important role in Nokia.
(…)
Qt everywhere. Qt continues to make vast inroads into especially low end Linux devices and distro’s. Qt also continues to provide a platform for others to innovate and differentiate upon.For example Dreamworks switching all their internal animation tools to Qt and making cool movies like “MegaMind” and “How to Train Your Dragon”.
Não sei qual será o futuro da Qt e o que fará o projecto KDE, embora pareça haver boas saídas independentemente do que a Nokia, ou mais precisamente, a microsoft venha a decidir e como se sabe esta não tem qualquer interesse em manter viva a Qt ainda por cima sob uma licença GPLv3.
The KDE Free Qt Foundation is an organization with the purpose of securing the availability of the Qt toolkit for the development of Free Software and in particular for the development of KDE software. It was originally founded by Trolltech and the KDE e.V. in 1998. After Nokia bought Trolltech, statutes were updated accordingly.
The Foundation has a license agreement with Nokia. This agreement ensures that the Qt will continue to be available under both the LGPL 2.1 and the GPL 3. Should Nokia discontinue the development of the Qt Free Edition under these licenses, then the Foundation has the right to release Qt under a BSD-style license or under other open source licenses. The agreement stays valid in case of a buy-out, a merger or bankruptcy.
The board of the Foundation consists of two members from Nokia and two members from KDE e.V. Decisions of the Foundation are taken by vote of the board members. In case of a tie the votes of the KDE representatives decide.
In May 2004, a first update to the agreement was made.
This agreement addressed the purpose in a more precise and complete way.
The intention and basic content however, were not changed. In July
2009, the agreement was again updated to respond both to the relicensing of Qt to the LGPL license and to the merger of Trolltech into Nokia. In November 2009, the statutes of the Foundation where also updated to better fit the new situation.
Terminando pela positiva esta longa entrada e apelando à bola de cristal apostaria que esta jogada da micro$oft daqui a uns anos depois de ter destruido a nokia, será vista como aquela que também a levou ao tapete, isto porque a micro$oft nao tem qualquer visão, creatividade, inovação, apenas pensa em destruir em vez de construir, tentando prolongar a fantasia de Steve Ballmer de que continuam a ser ou serão relevantes no futuro que bate à porta.
Guess what!!! Cada vez o são menos!
P.S. depois de se ver livre dos sistemas operativos e da investigação/software da Nokia, imaginemos que a micro$oft se vai embora, a Nokia fica sem qualquer plano B….o que lhe resta?
After 24 months of constant development, the Debian Project is proud to present its new stable version 6.0 (code name “Squeeze”). Debian 6.0 is a free operating system, coming for the first time in two flavours. Alongside Debian GNU/Linux, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is introduced with this version as a “technology preview”.
Debian 6.0 includes the KDE Plasma Desktop and Applications, the GNOME, Xfce, and LXDE desktop environments as well as all kinds of server applications. It also features compatibility with the FHS v2.3 and software developed for version 3.2 of the LSB.
Debian runs on computers ranging from palmtops and handheld systems to supercomputers, and on nearly everything in between. A total of nine architectures are supported by Debian GNU/Linux: 32-bit PC / Intel IA-32 (i386), 64-bit PC / Intel EM64T / x86-64 (amd64), Motorola/IBM PowerPC (powerpc), Sun/Oracle SPARC (sparc), MIPS (mips (big-endian) and mipsel (little-endian)), Intel Itanium (ia64), IBM S/390 (s390), and ARM EABI (armel).
Acabada de lançar a versão STABLE, deu-se logo início ao trabalho da próxima que terá como code nameWheezy e que passa a encontrar-se num estado de TESTING, tendo a sua génese numa cópia da versão que nasceu agora e contando com mais 2306 novos pacotes/aplicações.
Para saberem mais sobre a nova versão nada melhor que darem salto aqui e claro não esquecer de dar olhada à documentação de instalação/upgrade bem como à FAQ.
Existem pormenores interessantes que podem ajudar a efectuar instalações e upgrades sem problemas, como por exemplo:
apt-get can show you detailed information of the disk space needed for the installation. Before executing the upgrade, you can see this estimate by running:
# apt-get -o APT::Get::Trivial-Only=true dist-upgrade [ ... ] XXX upgraded, XXX newly installed, XXX to remove and XXX not upgraded. Need to get xx.xMB of archives. After this operation, AAAMB of additional disk space will be used.
The preferred program for interactive package management from a terminal is aptitude. For a non-interactive command line interface for package management, it is recommended to use apt-get. apt-get is also the preferred tool for upgrades between major releases. If you are still using dselect, you should switch to aptitude as the official front-end for package management.
For squeeze APT automatically installs recommended packages by default[2]. This can be changed by adding the following line in /etc/apt/apt.conf:
Todo este enorme trabalho que decorreu durante o dia de ontem pôde ser acompanhado via a presença do projecto Debian no identi.ca que agora continua a acompanhar o que se vai passando com o início da versão Testing/Wheezy.
Para terminar nada como brindar com um bom vinho Debian
This release includes numerous updated software packages, such as:
* KDE Plasma Workspaces and KDE Applications 4.4.5 * an updated version of the GNOME desktop environment 2.30 * the Xfce 4.6 desktop environment * LXDE 0.5.0 * X.Org 7.5 * OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 * GIMP 2.6.11 * Iceweasel 3.5.16 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Firefox) * Icedove 3.0.11 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird) * PostgreSQL 8.4.6 * MySQL 5.1.49 * GNU Compiler Collection 4.4.5 * Linux 2.6.32 * Apache 2.2.16 * Samba 3.5.6 * Python 2.6.6, 2.5.5 and 3.1.3 * Perl 5.10.1 * PHP 5.3.3 * Asterisk 1.6.2.9 * Nagios 3.2.3 * Xen Hypervisor 4.0.1 (dom0 as well as domU support) * OpenJDK 6b18 * Tomcat 6.0.18 * more than 29,000 other ready-to-use software packages, built from nearly 15,000 source packages.
Debian 6.0 includes over 10,000 new packages like the browser Chromium, the monitoring solution Icinga, the package management frontend Software Center, the network manager wicd, the Linux container tools lxc and the cluster framework Corosync. (…) Debian installation images may be downloaded right now via BitTorrent (the recommended method), jigdo or HTTP; see Debian on CDs for further information. It will soon be available on physical DVD, CD-ROM and Blu-ray Discs from numerous vendors, too.
Tal como já comentei no blog Pinguins Mágicos, deixo aqui os meus Parabéns pela decisão, mas também algumas questões.
Arrrreeeee custou mas foi! i told you so….
Há tempos quando mudaram de SuSe para Mandriva escrevi algures creio que nesse mesmo blog que o mais lógico seria mudarem para Debian porque mais cedo ou mais tarde haveria algum problema com a Mandriva tal como já havia ocorrido com a SuSE (a sua compra pela Novell e as negociatas desta com a Microsoft e os acordos de patentes de software), responderam que fazia sentido manter a base Mandriva….
O tempo deu-me razão!
Para além disso, convém constatar um simples facto, Mark Shutleworth (Canonical) não é parvo nenhum, por alguma razão escolheu a Debian como base para a sua Ubuntu….
A próxima versão da sua distribuição de Linux – a Caixa Mágica 16, prevista para Abril de 2011 – terá uma base Debian partilhando pacotes com Ubuntu e Mint
Agora a questão…compatibilidades….
Por diversas razões, como descrevi aqui nesta entrada ‘Diversas distros baseadas no Ubuntu regressam às origens Debian‘, bastantes distros que anteriormente eram baseadas em Ubuntu regressaram ou começaram a usar Debian pura para construir a partir de alicerces estáveis e acima de tudo para serem 100% Debian compatíveis algo que não se passa com a Ubuntu e derivadas.
Do anúncio não se percebe bem como vai a CM misturar tudo isto e acima de tudo não dá para perceber se irá ser 100% compatível com os pacotes da Debian, por isso deixo estas questões no ar!
Qual o objectivo da CM, ser compatível a 100% com a Debian?
A partir de que ‘ramo’ da Debian vão construir a CM, Testing, Unstable?
Vão fazer o mesmo que a Ubuntu, ter duas versões uma baseada em Testing (uma espécie de LTS) e outra baseada na Unstable?
Quando falam em Mint estão a falar da versão debian pura, LMDE?
Qual a razão de mencionarem Ubuntu quando a CM é KDE based? Não faria mais sentido darem olhada à MEPIS que é 100% Debian + KDE?
Seria interessante a CM esclarecer estas questões.
Assim que haja novidades aqui as colocarei
P.S. esperemos que estes sucessos se multipliquem neste ano
Amiúde faço comentários em diversos sites quer portugueses quer estrangeiros sobre a cada vez maior utilização de Software Livre (FLOSS – Free Libre Open Source Sotware) nas mais diversas áreas e equipamentos.
Como tal resolvi criar esta entrada com o objectivo de ser um local de rápido acesso, de consulta, uma espécie de cábula sobre as mais diversas utilizações e estudos sobre o uso de FLOSS em todo o mundo, por forma a usar este link nos diversos comentários que eu ou outros façam sobre estes temas.
Se pensar-mos bem, grande parte da nossa vida de uma maneira ou de outra em muitos casos depende já hoje de sistemas que correm Software Livre, quando acedemos à rede é muito provável que o router que têm em casa corra o GNU/Linux como seu sistema operativo, o vosso desktop, netbook, tablet ou smartphone também pode estar a correr este sistema operativo ou versões mais especificas mas baseadas nele como Android, Maemo/MeeGo, WebOS, Bada etc.
Quando acedem à grande rede, a grande maioria dos sistemas estão a correr sobre Software Livre, quer GNU/Linux quer BSDs, de facto a grande rede internet só nasceu porque os seus protocolos são livres e abertos para que todos os possam implementar, como por exemplo o TCP/IP.
Mas não é só a Google que pode existir exactamente porque teve à sua disposição fabuloso Software Livre que pôde adaptar aos seus objectivos, também a Amazon, a Yahoo, Facebook [mais info], Twitter, FriendFeed, Identica etc só puderam nascer e florescer exactamente por causa da existência deste tipo de tecnologia livre.
Outros dispositivos que fazem uso de Software Livre, nomeadamente de GNU/Linux, são TVs, motas, carros, aviões, submarinos nucleares, robots enviados a Marte, máquinas fotográficas e claro os supercomputadores, 91% de todos eles correm GNU/Linux.
Nesse estuda de mais de 4 anos, a Coverity chegou à conclusão que o Kernel Linux era o que tinha menos erros por cada 1000 linhas de código e que era o Kernel que mais rápidamente corrigia os erros que eram detectados.
Os números são extraordináriamente positivos, das 5.7milhões de linhas de código que durante o estudo compunham o kernel Linux, a Coverity apenas detectou 985 problemas, segundo os dados disponíveis pela Universidade de Carnegie Mellon, para um tão grande número de linhas de código, o ‘normal’ seria haver mais de 5000 erros e não somente os 985.
Geralmente o software proprietário tem cerca de 1 a 7 erros por cada 1000 linhas de código de acordo com um estudo do National Cybersecurity Partnership’s Working Group, o que transpondo esses dados para o kernel Linux dariam algo como 5700 a 40mil falhas, o que já se demonstrou não ser assim, uma vez que o kernel Linux 2.6 apenas tinha 985.
Estimating the Development Cost of Open Source Software: $387B of “Shovel Ready Code” the Private Sector Can use to Fuel Growth and Innovation
$22B of US Development is Redundant with Open Source Projects, Could be Spent on Innovation
Open source software (OSS) and collaborative development have grown from being academic pursuits in the early 1980s into a major economic and development force transforming the way software is created today. According to our research there are over 200,000 OSS projects on the Internet representing more than 4.9 billion lines of available code. We estimate that reproducing this OSS would cost $387 billion and would take 2.1 million people-years of development. In addition, we estimate that 10% of US-based development, representing $22 billion, is redundant and could be offset using OSS, much of which can be reinvested for true innovation. This is in effect a potential fiscal stimulus for innovation, larger than many of the programs in the Obama administration’s $787 billion fiscal stimulus plan.
Linux adoption is new use of the Linux computer operating system by homes, organizations, companies, and governments, while Linux migration refers to the change from using other operating systems to using Linux.
Many factors have resulted in increased use of Linux systems by traditional desktop users as well as operators of server systems, including desire for decreased operating system cost, increased security and support for open-source principles.[3] Several national governments have passed policies moving governmental computers to Linux from proprietary systems in the last few years.
In August 2010 Jeffrey Hammond, the principal analyst at Forrester Research pronounced: “Linux has crossed the chasm to mainstream adoption.” His declaration was based on the huge number of enterprises that had moved to Linux during the late-2000s recession. In a company survey completed in the third quarter of 2009, 48% of companies surveyed reported using an open source operating system[4]
It was not long ago when Microsoft Windows had a tight stranglehold on the operating system market. Walk into a Circuit City or Staples, it seemed, and virtually any computer you took home would be running the most current flavor of Windows. Ditto for computers ordered direct from a manufacturer. In the last decade, though, the operating system market has begun to change. Slightly more than 5% of all computers now run Mac, according to NetMarketShare.com. Linux is hovering just beneath 1% of the overall market share in operating systems. And although that might sound like a small number, Linux is far more than just a fringe OS. In fact, it’s running in quite a few more places than you probably suspect. Below are fifty places Linux is running today in place of Windows or Mac. For easy reading, they are divided amongst government, home, business, and educational usage.
Empresas, governos e instituições, desde as pequenas até as gigantescas, JÁ ESTÃO colhendo os frutos do uso do Linux. Quem participa além de usar, ganha ainda mais. Instalações desde um computador até gigantescas redes com 200 MIL máquinas estão obtendo as vantagens de usar e até participar no Linux e código livre.
Two years ago, the London Stock Exchange (LSE) with its TradElec Windows-based C# and .NET programs crashed and took out the Exchange for almost 7-hours. That’s an eternity in stock market terms. Months later, the LSE’s CEO was history, and the LSE announced that it was dumping TradElec. Last year, the LSE announced that it was going to move to Linux. Now, the LSE is just about ready to switch over to Linux. Not only does it work, the new Linux-powered LSE runs faster than any other stock exchange on the planet.
I’m not surprised. If you want real speed and stability, you want to run Linux. The LSE has moved to Linux for the same reason the vast majority of supercomputers run Linux — it’s faster and better.
The London Stock Exchange has said its new Linux-based system is delivering world record networking speed, with 126 microsecond trading times.
The news comes ahead a major Linux-based switchover in twelve days, during which the open source system will replace Microsoft .Net technology on the group’s main stock exchange. The LSE had long been criticised on speed and reliability, grappling with trading speeds of several hundred microseconds. (…) The 126 microsecond speed is “twice as fast” as its main international competitors, the London Stock Exchange said. BATS Europe and Chi-X, two dedicated electronic rivals to the LSE, are reported to have an average latency of 250 and 175 microseconds respectively. Netiher company immediately provided details. But many of the LSE’s older and more traditional rivals offer speeds of around 300 to 400 microseconds. Nevertheless, Linux is now standard in many exchanges.
And today I visited another place, as absolutely amazing as Weta Digital, in terms of what they’re doing with Ubuntu… After our work was done, Kees took me to meet one of his friends, a programmer and sys-admin at a financial firm near the Chicago Board of Trade (now merged with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange).
These guys easily have 35,000 square inches of LCD monitors running Ubuntu desktops, displaying in real time thousands of graphs, metrics, monitors, and statuses. Hundreds of multi-head desktops running 8.04 to 10.04, attached to 17″ to 42″ Samsung LCDs, Ubuntu logos everywhere I turned!
The LHC is an huge experiment (a snip at $10 billion) to explore the very small and very energetic sub-atomic world to verify, amongst other things, if the Higgs Boson really exists. That will be a monumental triumph for science and the human spirit. I have always been fascinated by particle physics, despite by academic background in the Humanities and I will be following the progress at CERN with great interest. I am particularly pleased too because free software will be at the heart of this colossal human endeavour. GNU/Linux has been, is and will continue to power CERN’s efforts. This is a wonderful opportunity to tell the world that Windows doesn’t rule the roost.
The U.S. military and researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are putting their heads together to help the military adopt more open source software. The military wants in on the cost savings, speed and flexibility which OSS offers to users, as opposed to being stuck waiting on proprietary software vendors to modify their tools when changes are needed.If the open source model can be secured enough for the military, surely it can be secured enough for the enterprise.
In terms of the open source platforms used at VA, he said they’re using Apache Tomcat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and MySQL as part of their core infrastructure. Email spam security comes from the Apache spamassassin project.“We’ve had 100 percent up-time and we only have one Linux systems administrator,” Simhambhatla said. “We couldn’t do that with commercial software.”
Star Wars: Episode II, Linux made Yoda a light saber-wielding action figure. In Lord of the Rings 2, waves of Orcs attacking the colossal fortress at Helm’s Deep are not thousands of human extras, but digital actors created using Linux. To consumers, Linux may rank third after Windows and Macintosh, but Linux dominates motion pictures more than anyone but studio insiders may realize. It has been used to produce more than 30 blockbuster films, including Lord of the Rings, Star Wars: Episode II, Harry Potter, Shrek, and Titanic.
In short, the big news in Hollywood about Linux is it is no longer big news. Linux has won not only renderfarm servers, but the artist desktops of the top studios. It’s hard to find a large studio that does not rely upon Linux as its primary animation and special effects OS, and many smaller film studios have adopted Linux, too.
Disney/Pixar, DreamWorks Animation, Sony, ILM and other movie production studios from Hollywood are using Linux to produce their movies.
I bet not many of you knew this (I didn’t until today) but practically every blockbuster movie you see in theaters today was created with Linux. Hollywood prefers to use Linux instead of other operating systems, like Windows or Macintosh, for three simple reasons: it’s better, faster and cheaper.
In Hollywood, Linux is considered the state-of-the-art, and 95% of the desktops and servers used at those big budget movie production studios, like Sony and Disney/Pixar, to create special visual effects and animation, are Linux based operating systems. Yes, I know that many of you will say now, “it’s not true”, “it can’t be right” or “I heard they use Mac OS X software”, but it is true and Linux is used to render those CGI Blockbusters you probably saw on theaters, faster than any other operating system.
In the film industry, Linux has won. It’s running on practically all servers and desktops used for feature animation and visual effects.
LinuxMovies.org met monthly in Hollywood for years, but now rarely meets.
Linux is used to create practically every blockbuster movie in theaters today, movies produced by Disney/Pixar, DreamWorks Animation, Sony, ILM, and other studios.
Linux is not only the ideal operating system for small screen devices like netbooks, but also a pretty good choice for the big screen. Several of the top blockbusters of all time were created with the help of Linux software or render farms running Linux.
The most recent example being the soon-to-be most successful movie Avatar. The New Zealand-based
visual effects company Weta Digital sits behind the stunning visual effects of Avatar as well as some other movies you may have heard of, including the The Lord of the Rings, The Day The Earth Stood Still, X-Men, I, Robot, and the 2005 King Kong remake.
When artists are ready to turn their work into a movie scene, they send jobs to the ‘rendering wall,’ a cluster of 400 Linux processors.
Weta had used servers and workstations from SGI – a known supplier of high end graphics processing -
before migrating to Linux over during the 2000 to 2002 period because it is less expensive and works just as
well.
Labrie said. “The price to put Linux in per processor is extraordinarily low, and the machines are fast as hell. With Linux you can entertain the idea of putting 400 processors in your machine room. We wouldn’t have been able to approach doing that if we had to use [SGI]; it’s almost a 10-to- 1 difference in price.”
While half of the processors at Weta run Linux, moving from a rock-solid platform such as SGI’s Unix flavour (Irix) and hardware had some challenges:“One of the advantages of working with SGI is that if you have problems, you have a single person you can point at and say, ‘This is broken, fix it.’ It’s a bit more difficult with Linux.” Weta had help from Red Hat and the open source community on many technical issues with Linux.
So began a three-month exploration of Mars. For a team of hundreds of scientists and engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Spirit is serving as our eyes—and our toolbox, using the tools at the tip of its foldaway arm—during a new chapter in the exploration of our neighbor planet. As is Spirit’s twin, Opportunity, which duplicated Spirit’s performance three weeks later on the opposite side of Mars. And what are all those scientists and engineers using to drive the rovers? They are using Linux.
The Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission marks a turning point for use of Linux in the space program. Linux has been used on space missions before—a Debian laptop rode the Space Shuttle on STS-83, for instance, as long ago as 1997. But the Mars Exploration Rover Project is the first JPL mission to use Linux systems for critical mission operations. On MER, Linux is being used for high-level science planning and for low-level command sequencing, visualization and simulation.
August 6, 2010, 01:28 PM — While Microsoft and friends are doing their best to hide Linux and open-source software from the public, businesses have been adopting Linux and open-source faster than ever. That’s not the opinion of FOSS (free and open-source software) fans. That’s what Accenture, a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company with no particular love for FOSS found in its survey of 300 large private and public organizations.
Accenture “found that half of the respondents (50 percent) are fully committed to open source in their business while almost a third (28 percent) say they are experimenting with open source and keeping an open mind to using it. Furthermore, two-thirds of all respondents (65 percent) noted that they have a fully documented strategic approach for using open source in their business, while another third (32 percent) are developing a strategic plan. Of the organizations using open source, almost nine out of ten (88 percent) will increase their investment in the software in 2010 compared to 2009.”
Have they visited the official Whitehouse site recently?Yep, it runs on Drupal, an open and free Content Management System (CMS). Are they going to put Obama on a priority watchlist? Will the CIA be monitoring it? Nope. It’s using Open Source Intelligence. Oops! Whatever you do, don’t tell them that the US Navy nuclear submarine fleet is using GNU/Linux. Run silent, run deep, run Foss. Court martial those criminals immediately.
The White House Web site has caught a case of Drupal.
In the Internet world, Drupal is not as bad as it sounds. The open-source software package helps people create and manage their Web sites. And this week, a new WhiteHouse.gov site arrived that had been built via the Drupal code.
To some, the White House shift to Drupal from a proprietary software package represented a serious seal of approval for open-source software.
CO: Linux is very stable and agile. We were able to pare down the embedded seat-back side to only the libraries we need, license a container app and then write the code needed to tie everything together
Which distribution are you using?
Flavors of Red Hat & Fedora (we have embedded seat-back units, seat & distribution boxes and a head-end that consists of some file servers)
On December 5, IBM announced that the Tommy Hilfiger Corporation has chosen IBM, eOneGroup and Linux for its new e-business infrastructure, as the company works to expand its presence among thousands of US specialty retailers, as well as for its worldwide manufacturing facilities and employees.
The German city of Munich is migrating its computers to open source and GNU/Linux, both on desktops and servers. Rather than lowering IT costs, the main motive is the desire for strategic independence from software suppliers. In May 2008, the city released its Wollmux template management system as open source software under the EUPL on the OSOR platform.
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Florian Schiessl: LiMux & WollMux: Free Software in Munich
Public administrations in the Axarquia region in Spain autonomous region of Andalusia are making steady progress in their migration to a complete open source desktop, according to Ramón Ramón Sánchez, lead consultant assisting the local government. (…) The municipalities and regional administrations in Axarquia in total use about seven hundred desktops. Speaking at the Consegi open source software conference in Brazil, this August: “At this moment, 50 per cent of the major IT systems on the region are already running free and open source, 50 per cent of all the software developed for them is published as open source and 80 percent of all the public administrations have begun free and open source initiatives.”
Schools in the city of Kemi, in the north of Finland, are saving costs by switching to open source on their desktop PCs and servers. The move has increased performance of the existing hardware, the schools report. (…) This summer the fifth school in the city, the local gymnasium, started using Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) for its PCs and servers. One of the main reasons for the change, are positive experiences from another school in the city, that has been using LTSP since 2005. Other schools had been migrated to LTSP in 2009 and 2010.
Today, GNU/Linux runs on just about everything that has a processing chip, from the smallest embedded system, through smartphones, ARM-based netbooks, laptops, multiple desktop architectures, servers and mainframes to the mightiest supercomputer – 91% of the top 500 systems run some form of Linux. Recent additions to the Linux family include Android-based tablets, Internet radios and TVs (and not just from Google).
The store’s Linux love is indicative of Brazil’s deep ties to open-source software. Visit the country’s universities and you’ll hear about many projects using open-source software in new ways. Step into the Brazilian data centers of some of the world’s most advanced financial institutions and you will see they depend on the open-source software for many key tasks.
One of the biggest backers of Linux has been Brazil’s federal government, which has a stated preference for open-source software and has mandated its use in the program that helps subsidize financing for low-cost PCs.
To say that there were some noise on the Web when Sun recently bought MySQL for $1 billion would be an understatement, to say the least. It’s the largest open source deal ever, and the latest in a series of large open source acquisitions.
The open source software market has reached a turning point, with organizations in the United States, United Kingdom and Ireland now committing to clear strategies and policies for open source software development. According to the findings of a survey released today by Accenture /quotes/comstock/13*!acn/quotes/nls/acn (ACN 45.64, -0.11, -0.24%) , more than two-thirds of organizations (69 percent) anticipate increased investment in 2010, with more than a third (38 percent) expecting to migrate mission-critical software to open source in the next twelve months.
Open source has officially “crossed the chasm from early adoption to mainstream adoption,” one top analyst announced at LinuxCon.
Jeffrey Hammond, principal analyst at Forreseter Research, said he bases his broad conclusion on several surveys peformed in 2010 which indicate that almost 70 percent of corporate customers say they are using Linux at the operating system layer, 65 percent are using open source at the database tier and about 60 percent are now using GPL-based programming languages.
A Forrester Research survey of the business landscape in the third quarter of last year found that 48% of respondents were using open source operating systems, and 57% were using open source code, which are the building blocks of software. A similar survey of 300 large public and private companies conducted by Accenture this August found that half are committed to open source software, with 38% saying they would begin using open-source software for “mission-critical” applications over the next 12 months.
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has switched 1,300 of the servers that manage its package tracking system to a Linux environment. The move has taken the better part of a year since all the original system code was written in Cobol and had to be converted for Linux — a less expensive option than rewriting it altogether.
The migration is a part of a larger plan to standardize on open source software to lower operating costs and increase the number of transactions the system can handle. The USPS currently manages over 40 million transactions every day, from tracking priority mail to shipping packages for customers at local post offices.
Other agencies that are using open-source software include:
The Homeland Security Department, which is funding a program that will help federal, state and local agencies better understand their options for using open-source software.
The Defense Information Systems Agency, which is planning to open source a suite of programs
that it developed for administrative tasks. The agency has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the Open Source Software Institute to help release the source code of the programs.
The Defense Department, which launched the Forge.mil Web site earlier this year for developers to work on open-source software projects specifically for DOD.
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, which has established a Web site for open-source projects developed by center personnel for mission needs.
Germany’s federal government will increase its knowledge on open source and will make open source software available to public authorities. (…) The federal government in late February announced it would invest 500 million euro in IT infrastructure, focusing on open source, green IT and IT security. Of these 500 million euro, the government is making 300 million available immediately for projects on innovation and sustainable technology, and for ideas useful for public administration. The remaining 200 million euro will be spent once there are concrete measures or plans.
PSA Peugeot Citroën, Europe’s second-largest car manufacturer is migrating to Suse Linux desktops. Novell announced the deal to deploy GNU/Linux up to 20,000 desktops, the biggest single company desktop Linux migration so far, at the end of January. (…) The biggest commercial switch comes on the heels of a decision by the French parliament to dump Microsoft Windows in favour of GNU/Linux. This summer, some 1,154 workstations in the French parliament will be migrated to a version of GNU/Linux, Open Source office tools OpenOffice and the Open Source Firefox web browser.
The German Aerospace Centre (DLR) will soon launch a satellite running software based on GNU/Linux. The Open Source computer operating system is also being used by Deutsche Flugsicherung, the German air traffic controller. (…)
GNU/Linux is also used by German’s air traffic control, Deutsche Flugsicherung, monitoring millions of flight annually. It employs computers running GNU/Linux to calculate radar data.
The privatised German air traffic control company last month presented its GNU/Linux based application on Novell’s annual user meeting, Brainshare 2007. Using GNU/Linux means the application, called Phoenix, can be employed on widely available x86-computers. This lowers hardware costs.
The use of open source by Germany’s Foreign Ministry’s makes its IT budget small in comparison with that of similar organisations, says Linbit, an Austrian provider of open source IT services.“It’s IT budget is a quarter of that of the United Nations, an organisation of similar size.” (…) The Foreign Ministry began migrating all of its 11,000 desktops to GNU/Linux in 2003. According to German diplomat Rolf Schuster, this has drastically reduced maintenance costs in comparison with other ministries. Speaking at the Open Source World conference in the city of Malaga, Spain, in October last year, he said: “The Foreign Ministry is running desktops in many far away and some very difficult locations. Yet we invest only one thousand euro per desktop per year. That is far lower than other ministries, that on average invest more than 3,000 euro per desktop per year.”
The Foreign Ministry is migrating all of its 11.000 desktops to GNU/Linux and other Open source applications. According to Schuster, this has drastically reduced maintenance costs in comparison with other ministries. “The Foreign Ministry is running desktops in many far away and some very difficult locations. Yet we spend only one thousand euro per desktop per year. That is far lower than other ministries, that on average spend more than 3000 euro per desktop per year.”
The ministry has so far migrated almost four thousand of its desktops to GNU/Linux and expects to complete the move by the summer of 2009, Schuster said. About half of all the 230 embassies and consulates have now been switched over. “It is not without problems. It took a while to find a developer in Japan to help us with some font issues we had in Open Office.”
The XO-1, previously known as the $100 Laptop[2], Children’s Machine[3], and 2B1[4], also nicknamed ceibalita in Uruguay,[5] is an inexpensive subnotebook computer intended to be distributed to children in developing countries around the world,[6] to provide them with access to knowledge, and opportunities to “explore, experiment and express themselves” (constructionist learning).[7] The laptop is developed by the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization and manufactured by Quanta Computer.
This following is an overview of governments and other organizations around the world that are evaluating the use of OpenDocument, an open document file format for saving and exchanging editable office documents.
NATO with its 26 members (Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, the UK, and the USA) uses ODF as a mandatory standard for all members.[1]
OpenDocument has been officially approved by national standards bodies of Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, Ecuador, Hungary, Italy, Malaysia, South Korea, South Africa and Sweden.
World map of countries, using the OpenDocument standard Officially approved Mandatory standard (Nato)
Sony is using Linux in it’s bravia series of tv’s too bad there’s not much you can do with that as of today. Samsung on the other hand has a list of tv’s which are readily able to be hacked into. Always wanted to control your tv from a shell?
This is the Dreambox, a Linux powered price winning digital television receiver. While it may not look like much at first, wait till you hear what special features it supports (some unofficially) .
At the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show Sony presented the new camera from its Cyber-shot product line. The DSC-G3 comes with a Zeiss lens with 4x zoom, a large 3.5″ touch display and 4 GBytes of internal memory. Most interesting is the camera’s software that includes, among other things, face and scene recognition, based on Busybox and Kernel 2.6.11 for the Access Linux Platform (ALP).
Por certo que muito mais informação interessante está espalhada por essa rede fora e não só, se souberem de mais casos interessantes, especialmente portugueses e de grande dimensão, por favor divulguem-nos nos comentários, prometo que depois os coloco aqui ou noutra entrada do mesmo tema.
Ora vamos lá fazer um pequeno resumo do que se passou ontem no Encontro Nacional sobre Tecnologia Abertaque decorreu no Auditório da Lispólis, no Pólo Tecnológico de Telheiras.
Este ano vai ser bem mais curto que o que fiz no ano passado, uma vez que ontem não tive muita pachorra para estar a tirar fotos e apontamentos….e irei falar bem da microsoft!!!
As principal razão para tal deve-se à decepção que foi o encontro de ontem, para mim é claro! Compreendo que lá para o fim tenha sido mais interessante com a apresentação de Pedro Nunes Ferreira – C.M.Portel (que presumo que tenha decorrido, uma vez que tive de sair mais cedo).
Começando pelas críticas!
1º Estou farto que neste país quase nunca ninguém CUMPRE HORÁRIOS. Raios, será assim tão difícil?
2º Compreendo que seja uma montra de tecnologias e de produtos tecnológicos de fonte aberta, mas sinceramente creio que seria mais interessante passar algumas das cool sessions para a agenda principal, especialmente aquelas que falam sobre implementação real de projectos do que propriamente estar uma manhã inteira a ouvir marketoids!!!
O que eu e presumo muitas das pessoas presentes gostariam de ouvir era pessoas que têm vindo a trabalhar em projectos e a implementa-los no mundo real.
Por certo que até por cá existem pessoas e projectos que seria interessante ter conhecimento deles e de como resolveram diversos problemas, como por exemplo os utilizadores.
Porque não convidar a Radio Popular, Ministério da Justiça, Exército, entre outros, porque não convidar pessoas da nossa vizinha Espanha, projectos como o Linex da Extremadura espanhola bem como da Catalunha, Andaluzia seriam interessantes de ouvir, alguém de projectos como a implementação de tecnologia livre no Banco do Brasil, Petrobrás, da Gendarmerie francesa, mais uma vez alguém do projecto de Munique para falar de como está a evoluir, ainda da Alemanha alguém do Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros, etc.
Linex na Extremadura Espanhola
Indo agora ao que por lá assisti.
Com o habitual atraso, mais uma vez Eduardo Taborda da Sybase deu as boas vindas, frisando que este ano o encontro se iria focar na questão, “Que desafios subsistem à massificação do Software Livre/Open Source?”, especialmente ao nível do desktop e agora também de outros dispositivos como os smartphones, tablets e ainda os netbooks, uma vez que a nível do servidor e da cloud, o FLOSS é nesta altura dominante.
Após a curta apresentação ficámos a saber dos últimos números relativos utilização de FLOSS pelas empresas através de Gabriel Coimbra da IDC.
O mais interessante desses números apresentados foi o facto de ter sido afirmado que as empresas que mais usam, implementam e desenvolvem FLOSS são sem dúvida as grandes empresas, pelo contrário as pequenas e médias empresas ainda usam pouco FLOSS. Ora aqui está um excelente mercado para as nossas empresas de FLOSS, ainda para mais quando o nosso país tem na sua maioria um mercado de PMEs.
Alguns números:
* 70% das grandes empresas já hoje usam FLOSS * 30% fornecem soluções FLOSS * quanto maiores são os projectos FLOSS maior é a sua utilização e desenvolvimento
* 1/3 dos projectos são suportados in house, segue-se o suporte pela comunidade e pelas grandes empresas como a HP, IBM, Red Hat, etc
Segundo os dados que a IDC conseguiu obter, a tendência é para o aumento e implementação de FLOSS nas empresas, aumento da utilização de aplicações criticas, a infraestrutura WEB detém 50%.
O mercado tem mesmo vindo a crescer de forma sólida em média cerca de 17,6%:
* Aplicações (ERP/CRM) – 27,4% * Desenvolvimento (bases de dados, etc) – 20,5% * System infraestruture (virtualização) – 21,5%
Depois da IDC, foi a vez da convidada internacional de mais peso, a CEO da Canonical, Jane Silber, a empresa do Ubuntu de Mark Shutleworth.
Esta afirmou que o GNU/Linux estava em todo o lado, ainda que na grande maioria das vezes esteja no backstage, onde não se dá por ele, como na infraestrutura da Rede, na Cloud etc.
Jane falou dos desafios que o FLOSS coloca às outras indústrias, como:
* user led content creation * open participation * Meritocracy * etc
Bem como dos desafios colocados ao FLOSS e GNU/Linux:
* Facilidade de uso * Qualidade já ultrapassa o custo como primeira opção de custo (dados da Accenture de Agosto 2010)
Falou ainda de como a Canonical se preocupa e designou 15 técnicos focados na experiência do utilizador, marca, interacção e funcionalidade para fazer evoluir o Desktop GNU/Linux.
Relativamente a tudo isto contou a história de que a Canonical tendo feito um estudo sobre a utilização de GNU/Linux por parte de utilizadores chineses reparou que estes se queixavam de o Ubuntu não ter uma opção de ao se clicar com o botão do lado direito sobre o desktop não terem a possibilidade de fazer refresh a este.
Segundo esses utilizadores chineses eles têm a ideia, percepção ERRADA de que no ms-windows fazendo esta ‘operação’, este se tornaria mais rápido! Quando lhes foi explicado que essa opção não existia no Ubuntu e que não fazia qualquer sentido existir, mesmo no ms-windows, ainda assim eles acharam que não era assim. GO FIGURE!
Jane explicou ainda que com o lançamento de Outubro deste ano, a versão *buntu 10.10, iremos assistir à integração do Ubuntu Netbook com o Ubuntu Light, transformando-se, palavras minhas, como que num projecto tipo Splashtop.
Seguiu-se Paulo Trezentos da Caixa Mágica, que brincou com a situação das apresentações estarem a correr a partir de um Classmate Magalhães2, uma vez que não estava lá a fazer um favor ao Governo
Projecto Caixa Mágica que conta hoje com mais de 30 colaboradores e uma facturação de 5Milhões de euros.
Pretendia falar de três temas:
* Caixa Mágica hoje, tinha acabado de sair a CM15 * Linux hoje * onde estaria o FLOSS em 2013
Falou ainda dos diversos projectos onde a CM vem participando, especialmente a nível Europeu, bem como de algumas novidades da CM15, entre os quais:
* HostAP, permitir ter uma rede interna (Mesh network) na sala de aula ainda que esta não tenha acesso à Internet * Controlo Parental, permitindo os pais definirem um tempo de utilização da CM após o qual o Classmate Magalhães2 se desliga
Relativamente aos projectos Europeus:
* Mencoosi - http://dudf.caixamagica.pt/ – managing software complexity * ULOOP (rede Mesh e WIFI; Network Manager com ZeroConf) com parceiros como a Alcatel Lucent, Huawei, FON * Total Recall (preservação digital de sistemas empresariais) * Aptoide (já com fork como o Apktor) – “Aptoide is an open source approach to repositories in Android. With Aptoide you can create your own repositories of applications, and use the client to download, remove and update them, from your’s or others repositories.”
Da Red Hat chegaram-nos a dois tempos diferentes, duas pessoas, Raquel Fernandez que veio falar sobre a área de virtualização da RH, ela uma ex-empregada da Vmware e ainda de Santiago Madruga que deu uma panorâmica geral do que é o projecto RH.
Começando por este último, apresentou um vídeo da RH com a mensagem que ‘Partilhar é BOM’.
Apresentou alguns números da RH:
* RH gastou investiu no ano passado 130M de dólares a desenvolver e a melhorar o GNU/Linux * 14% do kernel Linux é desenvolvido pela RH, a empresa que mais contribui para este; desde a compra da Qumranet que desenvolvia o KVM, a RH aumentou ainda a participação no desenvolvimento do kernel * Para além de produzir código a RH também o audita, cerca de 36,4% do código que temos disponíveis nas nossas distros sejam elas RHEL, Fedora ou outras uma vez que a RH canaliza upstream as suas alterações; bem longe destes números aparece depois a Google (10,5%), Novell (8.2%), developers independentes (7.6%), Intel (6.4%), IBM (5.3%) – dados da Linux Foundation de 2009
Santiago Madruga mencionou ainda o facto da RH ter certificadas mais de 3500 aplicações bem como de alguns acordos efectuados com a microsoft, mas bem diferentes do que a Novell fez, uma vez que não têm nada a ver com patentes, tendo sempre que cumprir os requisitos de serem Open Standards, segundo licenças que permitam a sua disponibilização e implementação por toda a gente, nomeadamente a projectos de Software Livre, afinal de contas a RH produz código GPL.
Falou e mostrou ainda um vídeo da escolha da NYSE e da Euronext, a bolsa dos EUA e Europeia, que usa massivamente RHEL nos seus sistemas mais críticos.
Por último mencionou que a RH é uma empresa que neste momento com os seus mais de 3500 empregados tem um valor de mercado de cerca de 8biliões de dólares.
Raquel Fernandez veio falar-nos da área de virtualização da RH, alguns números interessantes que ela mencionou:
* 85% do tempo dos CPUs está idle * em 2009 20% dos servidores são virtuais, em 2012 serão cerca de 48%
Mencionou alguns casos de sucesso de implementação de virtualização por parte da RH, casos da Allianz (poupou 500mil dólares), Scania e Voddler.
Perspectiva Jurídico-legal do Open Source porFernando Resina da Silva – Vieira de Almeida & Associados.
Esta foi uma agradável surpresa, Fernando Resina sabia do que falava e fez uma apresentação divertida e nada massuda sobre este tema que é sempre complicado quer de apresentar quer de agarrar a audiência. Ele fê-lo com distinção.
Falou das licenças do Software Livre, das fraquezas e mais valias deste.
Indicou ainda que o Software Livre com as suas licenças, confere maior flexibilidade e menos dependência às condições comerciais e dos fornecedores, bem como uma maior segurança contra a eventual insolvência dos fornecedores.
E para quebrar a monotonia vou agora falar bem da microsoft, sort of
Garrett Serack developer da Microsoft falou sobre o The CoApp project (sob licença APACHE), que nasceu no Lauchpad da Canonical/Ubuntu e cujo objectivo é no fundo levar para o ms-windows pelo menos a nível de aplicações de Software Livre, a facilidade de instalação e resolução de dependências que desde quase sempre o mundo GNU/Linux há muito resolveu de forma fabulosa como ele reconheceu, com os projectos Dpkg/APT/Aptitude da Debian e RPM/Yum da Red HAT.
Garrett afirmou que tentar instalar aplicações livres em ms-windows é um verdadeiro quebra cabeças, dizendo que em GNU/Linux isso é efectuado de forma transparente e sem complicações dando exemplo o Synaptic e as mais de 28mil aplicações que por exemplo estão disponíveis via a distro Debian. Foi ainda mais longe ao afirmar que o método de instalação, desinstalação e upgrade/update de aplicações e bibliotecas em GNU/Linux é muito superior ao ms-windows, dando como exemplo o facto de em GNU/Linux as bibliotecas serem partilhadas tornando possível que o simples facto de fazer um update à biblioteca openssl beneficia automaticamente todas as aplicações que dela dependem.
Afirma que o seu projecto é independente da microsoft e que será sempre ele que o controla e não a sua entidade empregadora, ainda que a microsoft lhe pague para o desenvolver. Outro dos objectivos de Garret é fazer com que acabem os reboots após instalações de aplicações.
Termino com alguns dados da habitual discussão do Painel:
O representante da microsoft Sérgio Martinho tentou passar a velha mentira da suposta aposta da microsoft na Interoperabilidade, algo que a audiência contraditou uma vez que lembraram à microsoft o caso dos formatos ms-ooxml e do ODF, havendo questões como qual a razão da microsoft ter optado por desenvolver um formato de ficheiros novo quando já existia o ODF, porque razão não apoiar o ODF?
Claro está que tal como o Primeiro Ministro Sócrates, também o senhor da microsoft não respondeu à questão, chutando para canto e dizendo que o ms-ooxml também é aberto, evitando discutir factos que lhe foram lembrados como o caso da microsoft não implementar no seu próprio ms-office o formato (aliás não existe uma única suite de escritório que implemente o ms-ooxml) bem como o caso de o seu ms-office não gerar ficheiros ODF compatíveis com a norma ODF como vem sendo demonstrado, mas mais grave a microsoft nem sequer cumpre as especificações do supostamente aberto ms-ooxml.
E ainda segundo o especialista que tem defendido o ms-ooxml e que faz a critica no link acima referido o ms-ooxml está muito perto do fim, ninguém o usa nem sequer a microsoft.
Compreende-se que o ms-ooxml esteja morto, basta olhar para o sucesso do ODF.
Falou-se ainda de cloud, tendo a representante da Canonical dito e bem que nem toda a gente vai querer correr aplicações da cloud e Paulo Trezentos levantou ainda a questão da Privacidade.
fora ….preferindo meter-se na cama com um parceiro promíscuo.
ustin Kirkland: A Glimpse of Ubuntu Desktops in the Financial World
