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NTT Joins OSDL
craigoda writes "NTT, the world's largest telecommunications company has joined the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) (Japanese) to focus on increasing the availability, clustering, and performance of Linux for use as the infrastructure OS in next generations telecommunications systems. NTT's work on Linux will be done through OSDL's Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) working group. Here is a Dow Jones Business story was released yesterday based on the rumour that NTT was joining. Looking at the OSDL web site, the rumour appears to be true."
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I used to work as consultant for NTT back in the mid-80s and they've always supported innovative strategies within the company. The folks at OSDL will be able to tap in large talent pool within the company.
Which is nice.
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And by great, I mean boring.
Hi everyone.
Note it says "possibly". Also, Linux migration is going to take a long time, and they probably will support multiple operating systems anyway.
First, the Japanese gov't supports a Linux-based OS, now this. Gotta hand it to the Japanese! yokkatadesuyo!
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Here's the babelfish translation:
No wait, it's here.
... which is basically big "Fu.., sorry, Thank You, but No, thank you" to SCO even after memorable trip of McBride to Japan
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Bell Labs develops UNIX as a development environment for next generation telecommunication systems. It grows to encompass a myriad of applications over the years. One day a bright young Finn hacks a derivative to run on commidity computing hardware. This derivative "Linux" is embraced first by hard core geeks for their own use (and as an expression of independence from various monolithic computing behemoths) and eventually, through the coding and evangelizing efforts of this user community, gains acceptance in enterprise level computing environments. Now NTT wants to use Linux as a platform for next generation data/telecomm applications...
But why are there not any American telecoms...?
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NTT and Linux to utilize, OS development for communication
The NTT group the basic software for the computer whose free distribution improvement is possible (OS) for the communication field which used "Lunix" embarks on the development of the software. The high performance OS which controls various communication services and the core equipment 3 years later are utilized in aim, development operational cost of the telecommunication infrastructure is lowered substantially. The Linux which precedes in field of public system such as electronic government started spreading even in communication field.
The NTT group on the 25th, with the fag communication major company of the world the development generalization group of Linux, participates in OSDL for the first time. The same group the United States IBM and the like domestic nigger technology (IT) consists the affiliated enterprise approximately 30 corporations. At the Japanese enterprise 5 corporations such as NEC, Fujitsu and Toshiba participate.
NTT being joint with participation enterprise, applying Linux technology, starts the development of OS in order such as customer data the various system and rating of several 1000000 human gay niggers it manages & to control. Presently, as for OS of the same field UNIX and the like grasps share, but as for NTT raising the reliability and function of Linux, the thought of utilizing in the basic software for communication.
Trolling is a art,
Slashdot needs to provide a list of corporations approved by the geek collective, so I can skip reading and get right to the knee-jerk reaction.
this should help stimulate and encourage developers to develop many features that linux lacking right now. Its good to see corporate america getting involved with linux, as this will raise the sloppy standards now used by many opensource programmers.
Many well respected innovationists working in corporate america have been restrained, until now, we will definitely see linux moving forward. There are a few things that will change, including these.
1) better coding standards
2) sense of vision and purpose
3) faster development time
4) wider compatibility and cross platform awareness
5) adherance to standardize protocols
6) trust
7) legitimacy
Right now, as it stands, linux barrels forward with no rhyme or reason. With legions of well paid and highly talented programmers and developers now in the mix, we will see linux break new ground.
so SCO buys NTT and then owns linux even more
excellent
you insensitive clod!
What is slashdot?
You failed the spelling test, go back to under your bridge, nigger.
I've heard that Slashdot, Sourceforge, and Thinkgeek all run off the same computer, and that helps VA Software cut costs and actually allows Slashdot to turn a profit. Has anyone heard this too?
You can read the translated Japanese site here.
Having lived in Japan a few years this does not suprise me. NTT always had excellent phones for the end users, with features that I still have not seen over here. Back in 1996 I was connecting at 56k through a cellphone, something we just barely are starting to see over here. Another nice thing was that half the payphones had built in data ports and ISDN connections.
And I know I shouldn't feed one. But just in case you're serious, everyone of the points you list, are things that I hope won't change because Linux already has them.
Right now, as it stands, linux barrels forward with a world wide array of projects, with each project getting it's own evangalist to promote it, (it has a rhyme and reason, just not yours). It has legions of well paid and highly talented programmers and developers in the mix, as well as legions of hobbists as well. The cream rises to the top. We will see linux break new ground, as we have for the last decade.
1) What were the alternatives?
:)
2) How much money will this save? I imagine into the billions, especially if it extends to a US telecomm switch to Linux. This is just one more step to open-source acceptability!
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45 minutes and only 37 comments, you can tell we really give damn about this post.
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Linux will need to task switch in microseconds
rather than milliseconds before it can become
usable as a platform.
This pleases me greatly. Does this mean we can expect to see NTT's TwinVQ (ie, VQF as popularized by the Yamaha encoder but technically belonging to NTT) made open source sometime in the near future?
For those unaware of VQF, it performs noticeably better than MP3 at compressing audio (at 96Kbps, it perorms better than even MP3Pro, though takes about 10x as long to encode). For some reason (cough cough money cough) only a 96Kbps encoder ever made it out to the general public, but many people who used and loved it have long awaited a higher bitrate version.
C'mon, NTT, you've got an otherwise dead and useless code base. Let us play!
Further, NTT joining the OSDL is extremely bad news for Sun Microsystems. NTT currently uses Solaris to run its group servers, but NTT is clearly committed to migrating all its servers from Solaris to Linux. NTT is the beginning of the Linux avalanche that will lock Sun computer systems out of the telecommunications market. (reference: " NTT Mulls Joining Global Consortium For Linux Development")
The cost of Sun's telco gear, with Vertas clustering and journalling software borders on insane for a large installation, so the long term economic benifits for NTT are obvious.
However, in my experience, a company as large as NTT would have signed NDA's with both Sun and Veritas to see what was coming in the next releases of their software, and to provide input into the design features.
I wonder if these agreements will allow NTT to do anything but help fund development of these features.
I've hacked my Aibo and installed a computer-controlled fleshlight in it!
How friggen hard is it to open a word document correctly? Maybe the reason Open Source Programmers have to work for free is because they suck! If OpenOffice can't even open a simple word document with tables after all these years maybe it's time for them to give up.
From your link "Asian trio to replace Windows":
(emphasis mine)
So, I'd say NTTs involvement in OSDL seems quite in line with the govermental involvement of China, Japan and Korea.
"Between strong and weak, between rich and poor [...], it is freedom which oppresses and the law which sets free"
[My comments are in square brackets. I didn't translate portions that explained what Linux is, and what OSDL is, because we're all clued in about that by now.]
NTT group plans to deliver a high-performance OS, capable of various telecommunications services, in three years. It will reduce the cost of development and operation of basic telecommunication. Linux, which has previously seen action in the public sector such as Denshi Seifu ["Electronic Government" -- some sort of Japanese buzzword] has also begun to spread in the telecommunications field [huh? the journalist got the order wrong].
NTT Group joins OSDL on the 25th. Including IBM, the organization is formed by 30 IT companies. Of the Japanese companies participating, there are NEC, Fujitsu, Toshiba, etc. totalling five companies.
NTT, like other participating companies, intends to use Linux in such things as system maintenance and managing literally millions of customers' account data and balance.
Currently, other OSes such as UNIX hold the majority of the market share. NTT plans to improve Linux's reliability and functionality for use in telecommunications.
-- 9/25 Nippon Kezai Shinbun Morning Edition
bah, i was one of the first to help suport vqf back in the day, i had the third largest collection on the IRC network we traded on... i listen to them comparied to an average MP3 and they sound like ass compaired to the highest quality encoded MP3.. MP+ sounded better then VQF, and most mp3s (different form of vairable bitrate mp3)
Not a troll or flamebait but VQF quite honestly sounds like trash through anything but a 5$ set of speakers...
i listen to them comparied to an average MP3 and they sound like ass compaired to the highest quality encoded MP3
And MP3 sounds like crap compared to the highest quality PCM (ie, a raw CD rip). I certainly won't disagree with you there, but I think you make an unfair comparison. No, a 96Kbps VQF doesn't sound like a 384Kbps MP3. But I'd certainly like to hear what a 384Kbps (possibly VBR?) VQF would sound like...
Otherwise, the Chinese would stick with Linux.
erm, sorry i didnt mean highest quality, highest was supposed to be normal (128-192)
sorry =\ i knew i should have previewed *kicks self*
arg, actually i didnt even mean that, the word that was wrong was the last MP3
to the highest quality encoded VQF!!!!!
there i finnaly got it!!! yay me...
arg, was that a sorry attemp for disagreeing with someone =( at least this wasnt front page news =P
About the Open Source Development Lab
OSDL - home to Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux - ...
For some reason I find this funny. Do they have Linus stuffed in some rack unit there? Maybe Finland should change it's name to "Finland - Linus Torvalds was born here".
Just a side note. The Tokyo Linux Users Group's server is currently being hosted by OSDL. Thank you OSDL guys. We just changed the network settings yesterday since they shifted to a new ISP. From this report I guess it's NTT.
Gee, another hardware company weighs in behind Free Software. The folks who crank out millions of blinkey-light boxes see hard economics at work here: Use Linux, don't have to hire expensive code-boys to worry about which O(1) scheduler to use. Can even afford to pitch in to the effort through places like OSDL with the MILLIONS saved in software development costs.
SATPO*: Solaris coders are a dying breed, costing their mother company big bucks to produce something that can be had for free, and they can't even think about dragging their company to the Linux bandwagon until SCO self-immolates. Solaris will take big hits when 1) some Linux or *BSD gets a DII-COE certificate (DoD apps), and 2) CGL turns 1.0.
I think the NTT support of OSDL is great, but I'm not going to pat them on the back for being philantropic - they did this for cold, hard economic reasons.
*SATPO - Someone Arbitrary To Pick On