At the Frankfurt motor show, Lexus reveals the 2010 LS600h hybrid car. As Lexus’ flagship, the LS600h gets the full hybrid Lexus Hybrid Drive system that includes a new ECO mode, which modifies the throttle action and performance of the air conditioning system to support fuel-efficient driving.
Lexus’ Hybrid Drive system basically combines the 5.0-litre V8 petrol engine and 165kW electric motor produces a maximum 439bhp and 520Nm of torque, giving nought to 62mph acceleration in 6.3 seconds.CO2 emissions are 219g/km and combined cycle fuel economy remains 30.4mpg. It gets a larger, 380mm ventilated front disc brakes with six-piston callipers, rotors and pads.
Key Features
- LS 600h and long wheelbase LS 600h L full hybrid models revised for 2010 model year
- Lexus Hybrid Drive system now meets Euro V emissions standards
- More compact hybrid battery packaging
- New ECO driving mode with efficiency-adjusted throttle and air conditioning performance
- New hybrid-exclusive exterior styling features and new exterior colours
- Rear Seat Relaxation Pack introduced in five-seat configuration
- New HDD Lexus Navigation System
- Automatic headlamp high beam system
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MSI launches the Wind U110-031US Eco netbook PC in the US market. MSI’s new netbook boasts an Intel Atom Z530 1.6GHz processor, 1GB of RAM and Intel GMA500 graphics. The Wind U110 Eco has a 160GB hard drive and a 4-in-1 card reader for storage. It gets a 10-inch 1024×600 LCD display, built-in 1.3 Megapixel webcam, Bluetooth and WiFi.
The Wind U110 ECO comes with a 9-cell battery offering up to 15 hours of use. You can now get MSI Wind U110-031US from newegg for $399.99.
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Packard Bell launches the dot m/u notebook PC, which is basically the European version of the Acer Timeline 1810T/Aspire 1410/Gateway EC1803h. The dot m/u is boosted by Intel’s CULV processor, up to 4GB RAM, Intel GMA 4500M HD graphics and up to 500GB hard drive.
Packard Bell dot m/u comes with a 11.6-inch 1366×768 LCD display, a 5-in-1 card reader, a VGA webcam and WiFi support. The CULV notebook is available in “NightSky Black” and “Cherry Red”. It is now available with Windows Vista and will have Windows 7 pre-installed starting 22 October. The price starts at Euro 399.
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Yahoo’s move to offload Zimbra, combined with Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems, are reminders of a nasty truth supporters of corporate open source would rather not recognize.
Corporate open source is vulnerable open source.
That’s because, with a few exceptions, open source has not been the money-spinner its boosters thought it would be. This should not be a surprise. Open source by its nature values other things beyond a vendor’s bottom line.
Funny, when you eliminate distribution and marketing, and when you can’t make people pay you for your product, your bottom line isn’t going to be as robust as it might otherwise be. Yet this is not a sign of open source failure. It’s a natural by-product of its success.
The money open source vendors aren’t making is money that open source users can make. It’s money saved on code, on systems, on development, money that can be used to do the work of the business. This is true whether the business in question is for-profit, a non-profit, or a government entity. The savings are real, and massive.
What is becoming clear, however, is that because open source values different forms of money, and different peoples’ money, it’s not such a great deal for vendors. That’s one reason entrepreneurial types like Matt Asay are saying good things about Microsoft. Open source, it turns out, is not about them.
But open source code still needs a place to live. It needs a home and homes cost money.
What the history of the last few years tells me is that the best home for an open source project is not a company, but a foundation.
Within a foundation costs are shared, savings are shared, but members are free to deploy those savings as they see fit. Groups like the Linux Foundation, Mozilla, Apache and Eclipse move forward smartly, developers getting plenty of resources to keep working, while corporate-backed efforts sputter and flame out with every season.
But life inside a foundation is not like life inside a corporation. What corporate eyes may see as healthy competition foundation eyes may see as wasteful redundancy.
Take the two code bases maintained by Openoffice.org, for instance. Few outside the business know there are two code bases, one based on Sun’s StarOffice, the other on IBM’s Symphony.
In a competitive world this would keep both sides honest. In a foundation world the benefits are not so obvious. It’s like having two separate offices within the same organization for Mozambiquan orphan relief. The orphans would do better with one.
These truths were not self-evident when the decade began, but they seem pretty obvious now. The question is what are we going to do about them?
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American billionaires, and even America’s government, seem powerless against the big bad bullies of the EC.
So Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is trying another tack. Approve my deal or open source gets it.
Ellison carefully noted that Sun, not Oracle, is losing $100 million each month the deal is not done, and that its cash bleed is accelerating. No, he won’t unload mySQL, he added, and mommas don’t let your babies grow up to be IT’ers.
It’s a subtle game. The EC is not good at subtle. It can take the Eurocrats a long time to decide what to do, and technology does not work that way.
Ellison’s words were a reminder.
So is the EC’s refusal to rubber-stamp the Oracle-Sun deal, pending more investigation, really going to hurt open source? Do the Eurocrats understand what open source is, and what it takes to make it go? Or, by pointing out the possible damage it’s doing to open source, has Oracle found the key to making the EC move?
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