As the IT industry in a wonderful, open-source software in 2010, also has a very good performance. With Android, Ubuntu and ARM’s outstanding performance, 2011 will usher in yet another bumper crop of open source software. Below, we will open source software for everyone in the performance of 2010 showed the trend of open source software coming year forecast:

1, the popular smartphone platform Android

Android slow and steady in 2010, in the increasingly fierce market competition, sales volume reached 30 million units per day, a fight to compete with Apple iPhone. 2011, Android will “win the” play an active role in the field of mobile operating systems. Cut third quarter of 2010, Android smartphone platform occupies nearly a quarter of the market, it is also agreed that the next few years, won the open source mobile platform will be the number one smart phone application platform throne. At the same time, iPhones at the Apple fans will receive more and more sought after, and Windows Phone 7 will be failed.

2, Android Tablet PC has heated up

IPad in the market with the popular, Tablet PC market heat heating up again. According to market research firm Gartner recently released market research report, Global 2010 Tablet PC shipments reached 15.6 million units next year, Tablet PC shipments will reach 57.3 million, growth will reach 267.3%.

iPad tablet PC market in absolute occupy a dominant position, but Android Tablet PC will also get rapid development. The characteristics of the Android open platform system is the scenery on the phone to the popularity of tablet PCs, Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo and other major PC manufacturers have announced the main attack on Android Tablet PC market.

3, Ubuntu, and Linux

Ubuntu in 2010 is very strong momentum of development, although the desktop distribution has been the main development direction, but the advance in the server space but also fruitful. It had been predicted in 2009, Ubuntu will be easy to quit Red Hat in the Linux operating system dominance. As people predicted they would, by virtue of growing concern and the developer of cloud computing applications, Ubuntu to do this. Canonical early investment in the cloud, and his open source cloud providers with the strategic cooperative partnership to help lay the Ubuntu Linux, a de facto basis for distribution of cloud deployment. Market data from the cloud, Amazon EC2 was in the tracking statistics, we can see that in the EC2 on the Ubuntu operating system other than overwhelming.