domingo, 15 de enero de 2012

analysts say Apple will overcome HP as a Worlwide Supplier

 Apple vs. HP



This article mentions how Apple is developing and improving, therefore it is becoming more powerful over other computing companies.

Analysts declare that Apple will overcome over HP the first half of the year 2012, since Apple has a 6%, from 9% up to 15% within four quarters.

For example, the iPad has revolutionized possitevely PC industry. And since this, Apple has become the second place worlwide PC market in the third quarter of this year 2011. I mean, Apple has become the second more powrful PC company.



Canalys is hoping and wishes that Ultrabooks can increase the sale growth in the next five years, although the prices must be lowered. 

The companies Apple and Samsung are the only British or UK suppliers to show any trace of market share increase by 22% to reach 230,000 shipments and 40% to reach 217,000 shipments respectively.

Furthermore, the use of Blackberrys have decreased since the use of Apple devices such as the iPhone have increased.  


OSI - Open Source Initiative

The Open Source Initiative is an organization which promotes Open Source software.



Some History...
It was founded in February, 1998, by Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond, sponsored by Netscape Communications Corporations, who published the source code for their flagship Netscape Communicator. Later on, in August of that same year, a board of directors was added to the organization.

         
                       Bruce Perens                                               Eric S. Raymond

Raymond was President of the organization until 2005. Nowadays, the President is Michael Tiemann.


Michael Tiemman

What is an Open Source?
Any program in which source code is available for users to work on it or modificate from the original design, either free or charging. Open Source is an effort made by many joined programmers to improve and share changes with the users.

Open Source Products
- Apache HTTP Server
- osCommerce
- Mozilla Firefox
- GNU/ Linux
- Android
- OpenDocument
- OpenOffice.org
- StarOffice
- X Windows System
- Eclipse
- OW2
- GIMP
- Sun's Java
- FreeBSD
- Launchpad
- SourceForge
- Scribus
- Audicity
...