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Symbian: Mobile Linux 'fragmentation city'
News Speaking at the Mobility Summit in London on Monday, Andrew Moran said that mobile Linux was "fragmentation city" and "completely unfeasible". Enterprises will not adopt mobile Linux because it is too fragmented, according to Symbian's head of...
[July 2, 2007, 16:46]
Doubts raised over Android fragmentation
News People have been predicting the success of open source for some time [but] fragmentation is easy, and integration is hard. Google claimed in November last year that it had made members of the OHA sign a non-fragmentation agreement, in which they...
[June 12, 2008, 15:05]
EC: European IT research is too 'fragmented'
News Europe's information technology commissioner has attacked what she calls the fragmentation of IT research in the European Union. Our problem is fragmentation. Addressing fragmentation is not a luxury.
[November 27, 2008, 9:33]
Love: The competition is not Red Hat
News A:There are two major reasons as to why Linux is not being more widely adopted in the enterprise: certification of business applications and fragmentation of the code base. If it fulfils its promise, the initiative could herald an end to...
[May 30, 2002, 16:48]
Opera: Single-minded about widget development
News There is a significant risk of the fragmentation of technology. There are already quite a few initiatives, and there is a risk of fragmentation, and obviously our goal is always to try to make things migrate.to a single standard.
[May 21, 2009, 17:19]
Linux vendors to unify efforts
News Besides creating a bulwark against Red Hat, the alliance between Caldera, SuSE and Turbolinux could help to combat fragmentation in the Linux market. Ransom Love, chief executive of Caldera, has been vocal in his concern about fragmentation...
[May 29, 2002, 15:36]
Real to mimic Apple's iTunes
News The release of RealNetworks' new service highlights increasing fragmentation in the online music market, in which different companies continue to adopt incompatible copy-protection mechanisms, each of which in turn are supported inconsistently by...
[January 6, 2004, 9:00]
BT acts to combat broadband slowdown
News This fragmentation requires the various parts of the network to perform more work, effectively slowing it down. The more people that use this on their connection and find it to improve throughput the better for all users of ADSL -- the less...
[December 23, 2002, 16:18]
Red Hat embraces embedded Linux
News The embedded market has always had a high degree of fragmentation, with over 100 operating systems. It could lead to more fragmentation, and we all know how negative fragmentation can be for our market.
[February 1, 2000, 13:24]
Gates and Torvalds face off at Comdex
News But now I'm fairly down on it because of the way Sun [Microsystems Inc.mishandled it," resulting in the current fragmentation of Java implementations from Sun, IBM, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard Co. Torvalds deflected concerns about the potential...
[April 20, 1999, 7:23]
Symbian: Android is not open, it's a marketing label
News Asked what challenges lie ahead for Google's Android, the Symbian Foundation's Williams said fragmentation is a key challenge — dubbing Android: "Just another Linux effort with a popular consumer brand attached to them.
[February 24, 2009, 8:41]
Mandrake takes UnitedLinux to task
News On a more technical level, MandrakeSoft also dismissed UnitedLinux's position that Linux is in danger of fragmentation, and needs a more uniform approach in order to be more appealing to high-end software companies.
[July 3, 2002, 13:50]
Startup Spotlight: Chase Episode I
News Do you think the fragmentation of Europe will cause the Internet market to develop differently here to the way it has in the US? We believe business to business is going to be huge here, despite the fragmentation.
[January 19, 2000, 8:51]
Students propose defence for DoS attack
News But I'm worried about something that doesn't work well with fragmentation," he said, pointing out that many digital subscriber line (DSL) providers used a technique for network data that increases fragmentation.
[May 13, 2003, 13:30]
Microsoft leaves standards group
News The threat of fragmentation I worry that that fragmentation in the Web services space will lead to slower adoption and less clarity in the standards. Over the past month, IBM and Microsoft have been at odds with other companies around standards...
[March 25, 2003, 14:09]
Put memory 'garbage' collection to good use
News Also, repeated sweeps cause memory fragmentation, which makes the job harder on the allocator. Eventually, a memory defrag must be run to clear up the fragmentation, causing even more pauses in execution.
[October 6, 2002, 20:41]
Internet tops newspaper ad spending
News A report from GroupM found traditional media advertising growth is being set back by the "fragmentation of TV, erosion of the newspaper and the diversion of funds into trade marketing". Advertisers are set to spend more on Internet ads this year...
[May 31, 2006, 10:00]
Linux: The forking fight-back
News The nightmare scenario of any company thinking of investing or already committed to Linux goes something like this: as more and more vendors get behind the OS, commercial pressures will lead to fragmentation, and users end up stuck with an...
[February 4, 2005, 16:10]
Linux standardisation efforts move ahead
News The effort, through Linux Standard Base (LSB) and several other projects, is Linux's answer to avoiding some of the fragmentation that split Unix -- the operating system upon which Linux is modelled -- into several incompatible versions.
[March 16, 2001, 9:04]
Red Hat flagship backs Linux standard
News Avoiding fragmentation is a crucial challenge for the commercial success of Linux, which depends in part on the support of software companies such as Oracle. Dominant Linux-provider Red Hat has given a boost to Linux standardisation efforts with...
[December 11, 2003, 14:40]
