Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Speaking at the LinuxWorld Conference in San Francisco, an IBM VP has berated developers of open source applications for cloning Microsoft Windows when it comes to interface design...
According to reports
the Vice President of open source and standards with IBM, Bob
Sutor, told delegates
at the annual LinuxWorld Conference that Linux is not going to make any
great inroads on the desktop market until and unless developers stop
cloning Microsoft Windows.
Instead, they should be spending more time
developing new and unique UI designs. This comes hot on the heels of
IBM announcing that it wants to build a Microsoft-free desktop
with the help of Canonical, Novell and Red Hat.
The unexpected remarks came as Sutor delivered a series of predictions
regarding the future of Linux. The outspoken IBM VP insisted that if
Linux developers are creating traditional desktop PC applications then
they would be much better off looking towards Apple for design and
usability inspiration than Microsoft.
"To the degree that Linux on the traditional desktop succeeds, it will need to approach the Apple Mac in usability and attract more graphic designers for design" Sutor insisted.
Less controversially, Sutor predicted that Linux will look towards the
clouds, or cloud computing to be precise, along with software as a
service technologies. The traditional x86 desktop becoming less of a
focus.
"We're extremely positive about the future prospects of Linux and open
source, but we can't slack off and we can't forget about those who
still might arise to try to slow or reverse the progress that has been
made" Sutor concluded.
Certainly, in the light of the whole Microsoft-free desktop thing, IBM
seems to be making something of a concerted attack on the Windows old
guard. By combining the Lotus applications of the Open Collaboration
Client Solution software suite with Ubuntu, Red Hat and SuSe it hopes
to make the kind of impact that matters.
A hope which might be helped by the news that Lenovo, currently sitting
pretty as the fourth biggest manufacturer of computers on the planet,
is to get involved by releasing a Linux/Lotus laptop that is
Microsoft-free...
David Bass
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