Linux OS over Windows… IoT market in ‘trend’
Lee Gyung Tak | kt87@ | 2017-07-04 09:44:11
Linux, which is an open source operating system (OS), has exceeded the limit of Microsoft`s OS` ‘Windows` as new technology such as Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud spreads.
According to IDC Korea on July 3, Linux (50.4%) outperformed Windows (49.4%) in the x86 server market for the first time last year. This is the analysis that Linux has a presence in the x86 server OS market, which the core server of cloud is computing. According to Kim Min-chul, a senior researcher at IDC Korea, "Unlike in the past, with the increased flexibility and scalability of Linux systems, existing UNIX systems are being converted into Linux systems based on x86 servers. It went beyond the Windows market last year."
Especially, Linux is showing off the influence Windows has shown in the PC market in the IoT ecosystem. According to a study by Eclipse, an open source SW development group, last year, more than 80% of the world`s IoT devices were loaded with Linux operating systems. Manager Jang Seung-han at Wind River Korea stated, "In the past, only the role of the sensor function, the network function has been installed in the industrial device which did not need the OS, and the data movement like the connection with the server becomes important and the OS is installed. Easy and inexpensive embedded Linux is playing a big role in the IoT market.” ‘Tizen’, developed by Samsung Electronics as an IoT OS, is also developed on Linux.
This is due to the fact that Windows is not as flexible and compatible as Linux in various IT environments. Kim Ho-joong, director of Red Head Korea, stated, "Nowadays, Linux and Mac OS are growing in the PC sector, but Windows is still absolute. But SDDC, which recently implemented all the infrastructure functions on x86 servers, is as good as Linux, which is highly flexible. We are moving beyond the server market to virtualization and IOT."
Linux is moving beyond Windows as the PC market dwindles and devices become more diverse. Google`s Android operating system, already developed as a Linux kernel from mobile OS, is taking control of the mobile ecosystem with Apple`s iOS.
Meanwhile, according to the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA), Linux showed a 0.11% year-on-year increase in Korean PC OS market share. Windows was down 0.79% from a year earlier, with a 96.99% market share. The Linux-based harmonica OS developed by the government as a public OS aiming at the exclusion of Windows monopoly in 2014 ended in a terrible failure. According to the Information and Communications Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA), the number of public PCs installed in harmonica until last year stood at 1,528 units.
By Lee Gyung Tak kt87@
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According to IDC Korea on July 3, Linux (50.4%) outperformed Windows (49.4%) in the x86 server market for the first time last year. This is the analysis that Linux has a presence in the x86 server OS market, which the core server of cloud is computing. According to Kim Min-chul, a senior researcher at IDC Korea, "Unlike in the past, with the increased flexibility and scalability of Linux systems, existing UNIX systems are being converted into Linux systems based on x86 servers. It went beyond the Windows market last year."
Especially, Linux is showing off the influence Windows has shown in the PC market in the IoT ecosystem. According to a study by Eclipse, an open source SW development group, last year, more than 80% of the world`s IoT devices were loaded with Linux operating systems. Manager Jang Seung-han at Wind River Korea stated, "In the past, only the role of the sensor function, the network function has been installed in the industrial device which did not need the OS, and the data movement like the connection with the server becomes important and the OS is installed. Easy and inexpensive embedded Linux is playing a big role in the IoT market.” ‘Tizen’, developed by Samsung Electronics as an IoT OS, is also developed on Linux.
This is due to the fact that Windows is not as flexible and compatible as Linux in various IT environments. Kim Ho-joong, director of Red Head Korea, stated, "Nowadays, Linux and Mac OS are growing in the PC sector, but Windows is still absolute. But SDDC, which recently implemented all the infrastructure functions on x86 servers, is as good as Linux, which is highly flexible. We are moving beyond the server market to virtualization and IOT."
Linux is moving beyond Windows as the PC market dwindles and devices become more diverse. Google`s Android operating system, already developed as a Linux kernel from mobile OS, is taking control of the mobile ecosystem with Apple`s iOS.
Meanwhile, according to the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA), Linux showed a 0.11% year-on-year increase in Korean PC OS market share. Windows was down 0.79% from a year earlier, with a 96.99% market share. The Linux-based harmonica OS developed by the government as a public OS aiming at the exclusion of Windows monopoly in 2014 ended in a terrible failure. According to the Information and Communications Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA), the number of public PCs installed in harmonica until last year stood at 1,528 units.
By Lee Gyung Tak kt87@