Linux vs Windows - Conquering a Windows Based World

Governments of South Korea, Japan, Australia, and China are becoming the “positive spokespeople” for the adoption of Linux according to Matthew Szulik, CEO of redhat. In fact these regions are key for Redhat earning 60 percent of it 2009 revenue outside of the US.

At the end of August, Red Hat’s revenue for the first six months of its fiscal year was US$246 million [m], up 34 percent from the previous year. About 85 percent of its revenue came from software subscriptions with the balance coming from services like consulting and training.

Redhat also plan to offer new technologies in the coming months to help customers build a virtualized computing infrastructure.  Redhat is also seeing increased income from the middleware offering JBOSS. I hope soon that Rehdat will be offering complete solution stacks with better intergration, installation, and updated features.

Singapore airlines is differentiating itself from other airlines by adding a PC running Redhat Linux to every seat including the economy class seats.  What really separates this offering from any other airline is they are NOT charging for it!

Unlike many U.S. airlines, the carrier doesn’t view in-flight service as a cost center where cutbacks can be made to reduce losses or boost profits. Instead, Singapore Airlines’ latest investments in cabin service are designed to help it stand out from the competition and attract more passengers

Since last year Lenova has been offering Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop on its high end T60p THinkpad. In July 2007 the new T61p will be certified to run Suse Linux, Rehdat, and TurboLinux. Covered at DeskTopLinux

Wall Street Journal has an article “Linux Starts to Find Home on Desktops“. NOTE: (This is just the summary, you have to be a subscriber to get the full article).

“So far, the clearest shift toward desktop Linux is happening in Asia “

IDC aslo states that the licenses of both free and purchased versions of Linux software is to increase by 30% in 2007.