Free hand.
The decision by Japan's Sharp Corporation to use the controversial open-source software Linux on its new Zaurus organizer is surprising. Linux is popular as an operating system for web servers, but is has yet to prove itself in the personal-computer market, where it is difficult to use and lacks qua...
| Published in: | Far Eastern Economic Review Vol. 164; no. 35; pp. 48 - 49 |
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| Format: | Product Evaluation |
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Review Publishing Company Ltd.
September 6 2001
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