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Posted on 01/15/2004 5:16:58 PM PST by fight_truth_decay
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:59:00 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Hewlett-Packard Co. on Thursday will announce that it earned a record-breaking $2.5 billion Linux-based revenue in fiscal 2003, with its Linux services and solutions business posting a 40 percent rise over fiscal 2002.
While the revenue was derived from the sale of Linux-related products and services, the Palo Alto, Calif., company did not specify exactly what was included and counted as Linux-based revenue.
(Excerpt) Read more at eweek.com ...
SEOUL (AP)—Samsung Electronics Co. of South Korea on Thursday posted a 24 percent jump in fourth-quarter profit on strong demand for its memory chips and liquid crystal displays.
IBM Earnings More Than Double By Brian Bergstein
January 15, 2004
NEW YORK (AP)— IBM Corp.'s fourth-quarter earnings more than doubled and surpassed Wall Street expectations Thursday, continuing a streak of good financial news from technology companies.
In the last three months of 2003, IBM earned $2.7 billion, or $1.55 per share, on revenue of $25.9 billion. Those figures all surged from the comparable period a year earlier, when IBM posted a net profit of $1.0 billion, or 59 cents per share, on revenue of $23.7 billion.
Intel Reports Record Revenue 1.14.2004
UPDATED: Sales of microprocessors, chip sets, logicboards and Ethernet products reached record levels in the fourth quarter.
1.14.2004 Yahoo's Q4 Profit Jumps 62 Percent
Yahoo! Inc. rode a rising wave of online advertising to a 62 percent increase in its fourth-quarter profit, continuing the Internet powerhouse's robust recovery from the dot-com downturn.
1.14.2004
Apple Hits Four-Year High on Audio Boom
Apple Computer on Wednesday reported first-quarter results that exceeding the company's own guidance, showing the highest quarterly revenue in four years.
"The HP-Intel Solutions Center in Shanghai already has about 50 Linux experts that will help develop the Linux market in China." Martin Fink, vice president of Linux, HP Enterprise Storage and Servers, said in the statement.
The cooperative effort will be targeted at the China market at first and will be later expanded to Asia-Pacific, then worldwide.
"This strategic alliance with HP will drive the adoption of enterprise Linux in China," Liu Bo, Red Flag Software's President and CEO, said in the statement.
HP and Red Flag will partner with global chip giant Intel, database software maker Oracle and software maker BEA to provide a common platform for China's government, telecommunications and commercial sectors.
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Unfortunately true. I saw two different articles today about China - One said the number of internet users was skyrocketing and they are only behind the US now in total. The other said Hong Kong had the highest per capita of software and music piracy. They will slowly steal our technology, manufacturing processes, "intellectual property" etc and eventually begin to form their own seperate standards, unwilling to share their gains as we have shared ours. Maybe sooner than even I think, saw another article about a new Chinese wireless standard today that any wireless hardware built in China will have to conform to.
You spout the same moronic drivel on every Linux thread I have ever seen you on. Why don't you disclose, as you did before, that you own Microsoft stock?
And how exactly is giving away an operating system which has its roots in freely-available code that Bell Labs released 30 years ago giving away intellectual property?
We are 25% of the world economy. The #2 economy in the world is China. Sticking with closed, proprietary software is pissing upwind. We would end up a backwater, with higher costs.
None directly, but in tech mutual funds sure, doesn't most everyone invested in tech mutual funds?
And how exactly is giving away an operating system which has its roots in freely-available code that Bell Labs released 30 years ago giving away intellectual property?
IBM and HP are giving their newest technology away into Linux, as I said above, and are unfortunately conceding their versions of Unix which are US standards. Both AIX and HP-UX are admittedly taking a back seat now. Other traditional US tech companies like Sun and Apple are losing their customers, and not for inferior products but rather that they dare charge a price for them. Apple even going off into music and Sun selling out with Linux workstations in China at a loss. If you can't see the damage to the economy and the one way transfer of technology you're blind in both eyes.
You spout the same moronic drivel on every Linux thread I have ever seen you on.
Yet that was the best post you could come up with?
And that has exactly what to do with the topic of this thread?
Haven't seen that anywhere except an unsubstantiated story on FR, but disapointing if true. But aren't they also more heavily contributing to Bush's re-election? Isn't there an article on FR somewhere that shows Bush running Microsoft IIS for his website and all the demos running Linux? Would make sense, since in other areas like England and Australia the Democrats (Labor) are outspoken proponents of open source. Here in the US too, like up in Mass. where they almost put in a law requiring you use anti-capitalistic software.
Which I ask, again, what has that to do with the topic of this thread?
You're free to make your own thread lamenting this "rip-off" if you'd like.
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