According to the IBM website IBM has 4 strategic Linux partners (Caldera, Red Hat, SuSE and Turbo Linux). Furthermore, I could find nothing in the news article (basically a Red Hat press statement) that this is an exclusive deal. Thus IBM is free to negotiate comparable deals with other strategic partners.
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Oh man, the correct answer is already known for many years. Of couse it's 42.
One reason for this (there may be others) is that Europe and the US are in different time zones and Amsterdam and Munich aren't.
When you download during normal working hours in Europe it's still very early in the US thus bandwith and server capacity is less stressed in the US than in Europe at that time of the day.
Things usually get wrong when a Slashdot article is written about an article that has been written about an article.
1. The slashdot header is about four companies getting "half the clicks" when the report measured "time spent online". Quite something different.
2. The article from the e-commerce times did not include a link to the original report and did not print the actual numbers from the Jupiter Media Metrix report. You can find the report from Jupiter here: http://www.jup.com/company/pressreleaselist.jsp
3. When you look at the numbers you see that AOL alone gets 32% of the minutes spent, Microsoft gets 7.5%, Yahoo 7.2% and Napster gets 3.6%.
And even the report from Jupiter says very little about the method: "Total Usage Minutes: The total number of usage minutes spent at the online property, Web site, category, channel or application during the course of the reporting period."
In my opinion this report only states what we already knew: many American households connect to the Internet via AOL.
You can find a list with the member states of the Hague convention at http://www.hcch.net/e/members/members.html. There are also links to the national organization representing a member state at the convention.
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I'm not that sure.
According to the IBM website IBM has 4 strategic Linux partners (Caldera, Red Hat, SuSE and Turbo Linux). Furthermore, I could find nothing in the news article (basically a Red Hat press statement) that this is an exclusive deal. Thus IBM is free to negotiate comparable deals with other strategic partners.
Oh man, the correct answer is already known for many years. Of couse it's 42.
One reason for this (there may be others) is that Europe and the US are in different time zones and Amsterdam and Munich aren't.
When you download during normal working hours in Europe it's still very early in the US thus bandwith and server capacity is less stressed in the US than in Europe at that time of the day.
Things usually get wrong when a Slashdot article is written about an article that has been written about an article.
1. The slashdot header is about four companies getting "half the clicks" when the report measured "time spent online". Quite something different.
2. The article from the e-commerce times did not include a link to the original report and did not print the actual numbers from the Jupiter Media Metrix report. You can find the report from Jupiter here: http://www.jup.com/company/pressreleaselist.jsp
3. When you look at the numbers you see that AOL alone gets 32% of the minutes spent, Microsoft gets 7.5%, Yahoo 7.2% and Napster gets 3.6%.
And even the report from Jupiter says very little about the method: "Total Usage Minutes: The total number of usage minutes spent at the online property, Web site, category, channel or application during the course of the reporting period."
In my opinion this report only states what we already knew: many American households connect to the Internet via AOL.
You can find a list with the member states of the Hague convention at http://www.hcch.net/e/members/members.html. There are also links to the national organization representing a member state at the convention.