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DARMSTADT (Germania) - Secondo l'Agenzia spaziale europea la sonda Mars Express avrebbe trovato acqua sotto forma di ghiaccio sulla superficie del polo sud di Marte.Se confermata, è la notizia del secolo.
DARMSTADT (Germania) - Secondo l'Agenzia spaziale europea la sonda Mars Express avrebbe trovato acqua sotto forma di ghiaccio sulla superficie del polo sud di Marte.Se confermata, è la notizia del secolo.
China is a vast market, but one whose cultural, economic and governmental barriers make it a difficult market to enter. Red Hat therefore has been in talks with Beijing-based Red Flag LinuxUno dei finanziatori di Red Flag è il governo cinese; Red Flag ha in essere partnerships con Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Lenovo (ex Legend) e Miracle Linux (società in cui Oracle ha una partecipazione).
"This working group has the interest and full support of our members," said Stuart Cohen, CEO of OSDL. "OSDL is uniquely positioned to accelerate the existing momentum behind innovative uses of Linux on the desktop by marshalling the resources and expertise of our members together with the Linux community."Fonte: comunicato stampa sul sito OSDL.
The use of Linux on the desktop is exploding around the world. According to market research firm IDC, paid shipments of Linux rose to 2.8 percent of desktop operating systems in 2002, up from 1.7 percent two years earlier. In 2004, it is expected to surpass the total new product shipments for the Mac OS.
"IDC is seeing increasing interest in Linux as a client operating environment." said Dan Kusnetzky, vice president of IDC's System Software research group. "IDC believes that common templates and frameworks, allowing all suppliers to develop compatible products, would accelerate the adoption cycle for Linux as a client operating environment."
...after the case received widespread coverage on the Internet, Microsoft has acknowledged that it may have taken things too far and has promised to treat Rowe fairly. A representative of the software company told ZDNet UK: "We appreciate (sic, NdR) that Mike Rowe is a young entrepreneur who came up with a creative domain name. We take our trademark seriously, but maybe a little too seriously in this case."E ti credo, che non gradisca che si faccia troppo chiasso intorno a questa vergognosa vicenda: sostanzialmente, dal punto di vista della ricaduta d'immagine, è come se il Campione Mondiale dei Pesi Massimi si fosse messo a picchiare selvaggiamente un bambino di tre anni davanti ai clienti di un mega-centro commerciale nell'ora di massima affluenza - decisamente non il metodo migliore per vincere il Premio Simpatia.
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According to Robertson, Rowe may have a good argument for keeping the domain name, because it is his real name, and he isn't pretending to be affiliated with Microsoft. But he said Microsoft probably regrets getting involved with the case because of all the bad publicity it has generated.