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analyst with USBancorp Piper Jaffray, adding, "The [Internet <BR> software vendor] economics are skewed toward the large players. " <BR> <BR> One telling sign for the company's future lies in the financial <BR> results for the next two quarters, Kumar said. Typically, companies <BR> report strong growth right after the IPO. If Be's revenue stays <BR> flat, "it's all downhill from there," he said. <BR> <BR> Losing to Linux <BR> The open-source upstart Linux has also become a thorn for Be, <BR> analysts say. <BR> <BR> "They are competing for the same space Linux is trying to play in," <BR> said Rob Enderle, an analyst at Giga Information Group, but "Linux <BR> has substantially more interest than BeOS." <BR> <BR> Enderle sees the rollout of Microworkz's iToaster as a good case in <BR> point. The company initially said the $199 computer used a hybrid <BR> of Linux and BeOS; it then backed off and said it used only BeOS <BR> and proprietary Microworkz enhancements. But it was the Linux hype <BR> that drove the news, Enderle said. <BR> <BR> The biggest computer manufacturers have embraced Linux in varying <BR> degrees. IBM, Compaq Computer, and Hewlett-Packard offer systems <BR> guaranteed to work with Linux, and Dell pre-installs Red Hat Linux <BR> on several models, including business computers. <BR> <BR> While BeOS is a desktop operating system headed for gadgets and <BR> Linux's success has been chiefly with servers, Linux is <BR> nevertheless headed in that direction as well. <BR> <BR> "The challenge for BeOS in small form-factors such as handhelds is <BR> that Linux is already there in terms of acceptance, and vendors <BR> appreciate the mind share that Linux lends itself to," said Stacey <BR> Quandt, an analyst at Giga Information Group. <BR> <BR> "Linux is going in so many directions: devices, handhelds, wearable <BR> computers, server appliances. BeOS is in a niche market with <BR> digital media," she said. <BR> <BR> In the gadget market, Linux is appealing, because companies won't <BR> have to pay royalties, Enderle said. <BR> <BR> BeOS is also hampered by a lack of mainstream software--a problem <BR> that afflicts Linux as well. "There's a shortage of Mac titles, but <BR> it's harder to find BeOS titles," Enderle said. <BR> <BR> Technically sound <BR> BeOS is technically good, analysts said, though Quandt noted there <BR> have been complaints that it takes about eight hours to load onto a <BR> laptop, when loaded from a CD. <BR> <BR> Enderle said BeOS is relatively crashproof, largely because it <BR> isn't burdened the way Windows is with the requirement to support <BR> older "legacy" software written for earlier versions of the <BR> operating system. <BR> <BR> Michael Tiemann, a founder of Cygnus Solutions, a company that has <BR> developed programming tools for both Linux and BeOS, praised BeOS <BR> for achieving a technologically elegant operating system. "It has <BR> benefited from throwing away 20 years of operating systems <BR> baggage," he said. <BR> <BR> On the other hand, Linux has a huge developer base and the <BR> excitement of open source programming, a feature absent from BeOS, <BR> Tiemann said. "There's a lot more collaboration with the Linux <BR> community," he said of his company's interaction with Linux gurus. <BR> With BeOS, "we're not getting the kind of feedback, enhancements, <BR> and community synergy that we get from Linux." <BR> <BR> The open source development of Linux, though, can be intimidating <BR> to companies who want the security of a product road map, a feature <BR> BeOS and Windows offer. <BR> <BR> Another difference between BeOS and Linux is that Linux is <BR> available on many more chips than Be. (A computer's chip can't run <BR> just any operating system. It first takes work to allow the chip <BR> and OS to "talk" to each other.) <BR> <BR> Be now works on PowerPC systems and Intel systems, but Linux, <BR> because its source code is open, can be more easily translated to <BR> other systems. It runs on everything from PalmPilots to machines <BR> using chips from Intel, Sun, Silicon Graphics, HP, Compaq, IBM, and <BR> others. <BR> <BR>==================End of Forwording===================== <BR>-- <BR>|======================+========================+====================| <BR>| 以无法为有法 , | 拳本无法,有法也空; | 我爱GNU/Linux, | <BR>| 以无限为有限 | 一法不立,无法不容。| 因为我爱自由! | <BR>| | | | <BR>| 截拳道宗师-李小龙 | 意拳宗师-王芗斋 | 土人 Linuxrat | <BR>|======================+========================+====================| <BR> <BR>※ 来源:·BBS 水木清华站 smth.org·[FROM: 202.112.168.252] <BR><CENTER><H1>BBS水木清华站∶精华区</H1></CENTER></BODY></HTML>
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