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Re: 64.7% by 2017

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Ezekiel wrote:

> 
> "GreyCloud" <mist@cumulus.com> wrote in message
> news:EeKdnZoUN4KdLojInZ2dnUU7-W2dnZ2d@bresnan.com...
>> Slimer wrote:
>>
>>> On 2015-03-27 12:46 PM, Ezekiel wrote:
>>>> "-hh" <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:7dd4550d-c719-4ccf-a5ee-87f382b80716@googlegroups.com...
>>>>> vallor wrote:
>>>>>> IoT (embedded) Linux adoption prediction:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <https://www.linux.com/news/embedded-mobile/mobile-linux/818011-
>> embedded-linux-keeps-growing-amid-iot-disruption-says-study>
>>>>>
>>>>> The lines on that graph look quite flat, despite the language of
>>>>> "surging open source Linux growth".
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I find the entire prediction amusing.
>>>>
>>>> They're predicting that it will be "64.7%" by 2017.
>>>>
>>>> They're not predicting 65% or predicting that it'll be over 60%.
>>>> They're not even predicting that it will be "nearly 2/3rds" by 2017.
>>>>
>>>> The prediction is for exactly "64.7%"
>>>
>>> When you have no credibility, you can make grandiose and incredibly
>>> accurate predictions based on the overwhelming lack of evidence as much
>>> as you want. Fat ass 7 does this all the time.
>>>
>>> < snip >
>>>
>> Besides, isn't the article written by a linux shill?
>>
>> They have no credibility.
>> But Oracles website is claiming that over a billion devices are running
>> Java.
>> At least that is one claim I can believe from Oracle because that was the
>> original intent of Java.
>>
> 
> It's way over 1 billion Java devices. It was 3x that number back in 2012.
> There's a lot of Java out there.
> 
> <quote>
> JavaOne 2012 Review: Make the Future Java
> by Steve Meloan
> Published October 2012
> 
> The repeated theme for this year's conference was "Make the Future Java,"
> and according to recent stats, the groundwork is already firmly in place:
> 
> * There are 9 million Java developers worldwide.
> 
> *****************************
> * Three billion devices run Java.
> *****************************
> 
> * Five billion Java Cards are in use.
> 
> * One hundred percent of Blu-ray Disc players ship with Java.
> 
> * Ninety-seven percent of enterprise desktops run Java.
> 
> * Eighty-nine percent of PC desktops run Java.
> 
> </quote>
> 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/javaone12review-1863742.html
> 
> 

That is pretty much what I've read for a long time.
So it appears that the lincultists think that a device must be running 
embedded Linux, when in fact it is not.  I believe the original java moniker 
was called Oakridge or something like that a long time ago when it was first 
developed.

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64.7% by 2017 vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2015-03-26 17:59 -0700
  Re: 64.7% by 2017 Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2015-03-26 21:07 -0400
    Re: 64.7% by 2017 GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2015-03-27 13:45 -0600
  Re: 64.7% by 2017 Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2015-03-27 06:06 -0400
    Re: 64.7% by 2017 Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2015-03-27 12:25 -0400
    Re: 64.7% by 2017 GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2015-03-27 13:45 -0600
  Re: 64.7% by 2017 -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2015-03-27 04:01 -0700
    Re: 64.7% by 2017 "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2015-03-27 12:46 -0400
      Re: 64.7% by 2017 Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2015-03-27 13:13 -0400
        Re: 64.7% by 2017 GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2015-03-27 13:44 -0600
          Re: 64.7% by 2017 "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2015-03-28 09:33 -0400
            Re: 64.7% by 2017 GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2015-03-28 11:14 -0600

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