Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.os.linux.advocacy > #286440

Re: 64.7% by 2017

Show all headers | View raw

"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


-- 
I arrived at his house with only 65% battery charge on my Linux netbook, but 
*** 9 hours *** later when everything was done, it still showed one hours 
battery life remaining !

It was powering the external 1TB hard drive the whole time.

Terry Porter and yet another miracle Linux device. Run Linux on a netbook 
and the laws of physics no longer apply to batteries.
<l7mdnbqugv8jG_fRnZ2dnUVZ_qydnZ2d@netspace.net.au>

Back to comp.os.linux.advocacy | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

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

csiph-web