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Bad habits gather by unseen degrees Like streams run to rivers and rivers run to seas.

You're pounding the keyboard, double-clicking away, sighing and grumbling, but to no avail: That devilish little hourglass icon refuses to give way to the website you're trying to reach.

Lenovo Group, world's leading computer manufacturer, Thursday said it is
exploring opportunities for setting up its own research and development
(R&D) centre in India.

Compute 2008
and
HeadStart 2008

Compute 2008 and HeadStart 2008 sponsored by ACM Bangalore is a set of co-located International conferences aimed at promoting and showcasing new research and applied technology implementations.

Headstart is a showcase of most exciting products and technology in India – with a big difference. Unlike several existing showcase events that bring together VCs and Entrepreneurs together, Headstart and co-located Compute 2008 covers the entire innovation lifecycle in one place. This means participation from ALL the players in the innovation lifecycle: academicians, researchers, entrepreneurs, marketers, large companies, venture capitalists and customers, which we believe is essential to accelerate the pace of innovation in India.

The 3-day event will feature presentations of new products and research; technology tutorials; panel discussions on segments such as consumer services, mobility, enterprise applications and embedded systems. We have workshops on how to identify business opportunities, raise money, build products and effectively sell them in the marketplace.

Who should attend and why

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Open Source market forecast: Linux to their offering.

The report analyses and forecasts Linux software and service revenue opportunities in enterprises and public sector organisations, as well as among individual consumers. We look at both the server and client markets, but exclude the embedded Linux market.

The market for Linux products and services will grow from $2.4 bn in 2007 to $7.7 bn in 2012. Growth will slow down from 36 per cent in 2008 to 17 per cent in 2012. The revenue figures are small compared to other operating system (OS) markets, but the impact of Linux on other OSs will be much more significant than these figures would lead you to believe.

Linux service revenues will grow faster than Linux software revenues. Services will grow from 77 per cent to 81 per cent of the total Linux market between 2007 and 2012, as Linux use becomes more complex. The server market is the main segment of the overall Linux market. This segment accounts for 83 per cent of the market in 2007. However, by 2012, Linux's importance as a client OS will have grown and, as a result, server-based use of Linux software and services will reduce to 81 per cent of the overall market.