Published by Robert Pogson February 27th, 2012
in technology.
I love numbers. They can be measured and specified with arbitrary precision. They can bore, dampen or exhilarate one’s feelings.
Android/Linux latest numbers really are great:
- 850000 activations per day,
- 300 million installed devices,
- 450K apps in Android Market,
- 1 billion app-downloads from Android Market per month,
- more than 800 Android/Linux products have been manufactured so far, and
- more than 100 are on display at MWC 2011.
See Android at Mobile World Congress
Those numbers are astounding. I read recently that there are 1500 million x86/amd64 PCs operating. With these numbers and this growth, Android/Linux will be in that ball-park in a few years. That FLOSS is now in the hands of so many who enjoy it is the foot-in-the-door for FLOSS. At some point, the tipping point, FLOSS just cannot be denied its place in IT. No FUD will hold FLOSS back. No lawsuit will hold FLOSS back. FLOSS has become the elephant in the room.
The tipping point was a few years ago for GNU/Linux and last year for Android/Linux. On the horizon is very widespread adoption and presence on retail shelves for both.
- Robert Pogson
Published by Robert Pogson February 27th, 2012
in Uncategorized.
The BBC has an article considering Israel’s military options against Iran designed to stop Iran’s nuclear programme. The article concentrates on bombing and missile attacks but misses one important option that Israel has, nuclear weapons. Israel is believed to have nuclear weapons and the logical weapon to use against an adversary believed intent on going nuclear would be a nuclear weapon. A nuclear weapon would do a lot more damage than any “bunker-busting” high explosive bomb and would deal with the problem of the limited carrying capacity of Israel’s planes. A further option would be to use such a weapon against the government of Iran.
We could be about to see the first use of nuclear weapons since 1945, and Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) advancing past deterrence. It all depends on how serious Israel and Iran are in this game of “chicken”. I think either or both governments are crazy enough to do such things. Both have domestic and global problems and both have leaders not shy to use violence to achieve their ends. When these two eventually attack militarily nuclear is an option.
What Russia and China, both nuclear powers, would do in response to a nuclear attack against their Iranian ally, is anyone’s guess. I would expect equipping Iran with the latest weaponry at least. That would give Iran more options for their response. I expect Iran would consider an assault across Iraq and Jordan sooner or later bringing an end to any prospects for peace in the Middle-east.
- Robert Pogson
Published by Robert Pogson February 27th, 2012
in technology.
As of 2012-2-23, the city of Munich has converted 10000 of its PCs to GNU/Linux and almost all of its 15000 PCs to OpenOffice.org 3.2.1, ODF standard and a Wiki distributing a complete set of templates for all their offices. They no longer have random applications scattered throughout the organization but have most applications centrally managed with many web applications amongst them. Where they used to have 900 macros they now have 100. By the end of 2012 they expect to have the migration finished.
see Limux IT Blog
- Robert Pogson
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