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car boom in emerging markets

I just got from my friend Horst (Pirelli), a mail car boom in the coming years. This following excerpt: sixfold

car sales in emerging countries by 2018
"Despite the unprecedented crisis in sales and generally gloomy forecast is the automotive industry from its greatest period of growth so far," the international strategy consulting firm Booz & Company. The reason given for this view with a rising per capita incomes in emerging countries and significantly cheaper and more precisely tailored to problems of mobility vehicles, which draw a sixfold increase in local auto sales to be up to 2018. "

My comment:

respect to these predictions of massive growing car market in emerging countries my opinion. This growth can be our manufacturers, relatively little use of cars coming go there today mainly from Japan and soon in India itself (as already Rolls-Royce, for example) or China (with start-up support of our manufacturers).

Where the lag we are still behind her, what the Needs in these regions is concerned. Our premium manufacturers have just their "America problem" in Germany. I have the BMW branch in the day a 1-ser Coupe the high price of 47.0000, - seen (EUR 29.000, - plus list of 18,000 - Extras) - I think the spin at BMW.

These "premium" vehicles are in emerging countries with such high taxes (to right) proves that you play only one rare-existence. On the other hand, include, for example in Thailand pick-ups as agricultural vehicles and tax incentives. Thailand is now the world's largest pickup truck producer - Japanese models. There is no single German manufacturer of a pick-up date had offered. So it will continue to be such that the volume of business passing in these regions to our manufacturers.

So rather Horst: "All the shares of the company Porsche (see current number joke" tail wags dog "), Daimler, BMW quickly removed from the depot

;-) Regards, Lothar

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power with Google "Chrome OS" Microsoft Problems? Web

Following the recent announcement! of "Chrome OS" is back to a variety of news and comments. Much of this is nonsense and more of this speculation. If the so-called analysts believe that users want software to run on the computer, or that Google will probably take years before it Microsoft may extend to the operating system level, the water, etc., is The question whether the are paid for by Microsoft. Microsoft is of course too funny "by Chrome OS there is nothing more than a blog ..."! About Linux was not so long reviled similar. Are there still companies that do not use? Linux does indeed no small role in the Google concept. Instead of Chrome could also Firefox, Safari or even IE share, if someone wants.

I found on the Chrome release in September 2008 has the potential of a "Web OS" speculation at this point and my expectations have been confirmed. If Google is put into an "exotic" corner, as, for example, "small, low-power, mobile devices," or "just for consumers," then tell me which is reminiscent of IBM vs Microsoft OS / 2 and DOS times. Nor has flattened as Microsoft, IBM will destroy Google Microsoft. There is still the main frame, and there will be in 10 years "fat" Microsoft clients. With "fat" I mean that as for fresh Vista installation, virus checker 70,000 or are there no shows 100,000 files without any user data I have stored.

notice after my recent experience with netbooks and mobile computing, I have that I will have to install any applications running on a device or, provided I have the functionality I need. To the extent that how applications are available through the Web increases, the need for local applications. Of course, a certain amount of offline capability be available. I'm already largely independent of MS operating system and MS Office applications or similar dinosaur. This is certainly not for all applications and user groups, but I am convinced that for a majority of users - or call them containing consumer - so true. If not Google prevails, there will be somebody else. There is certainly a life - IT architecture and new OS - or in parallel to Microsoft. That of seeing and understanding can the shows already the road.

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milestone with Google "Chrome"

The Star Wars, or Google vs. Microsoft

The precursor of the Internet is now about 25 years old. Exactly 1 January 1983, the then ARPANET switched to the U.S. military on the TCP / IP protocol, based on today's Internet.

Tim Berners-Lee's invention 15 years ago changed the world - since 30 April 1993, the World Wide Web for all released. Simultaneously was "open source" so manifest: Anyone may use his ideas and inventions in the future, royalty free, he gave the public record. Patents did not exist, his inventions were to be free of charge. Crucial to the success was also the first relase of the Netscape browser this year.

One of the next milestone on the Web was 5 years later than 1998, the company Google was Sunswept Entertainment. The new search engine was on 7 September 1998 online, by communicating on the Internet the number of searches exploded in no time. Today, Google dominates the search market clearly (eg in D with 80-90%). The recipe for success: simplicity and speed.

Since its founding Google in a few days 10 years have passed, as on 1.9.2008 was the announcement and the day after downloading the beta version of Chrome in 100 countries and 40 languages were available.


This day will again mark a further milestone because they are built the way software applications, used and operated, change is. It will make applications independent from the device (desktop, notebook, netbook, mobile, iPhone, ...), the operating system (MS-XP, MS-Vista, Linux, Unix, MacOS / X, Android, ...) from Location - anywhere there is a network connection where possible and "Gears" and offline. The Virtualiserung technologies such as infrastructure, software as a service (SaaS) and cloud computing will be lifted on to a new level, Microsoft will bekomenn major problems ...

Why this is so can be derived from the Kommmentaren the Inter-Media

Google: His company had invented the browser from scratch, "said Google Vice President Sundar Pichai. "What we really needed was not just a browser, but a modern platform for web pages and applications." Because the Internet is more lush, interactive applications, which would be called instead of simple text pages.

mirror The excitement about Google's browser is surprisingly published entitled. SPIEGEL ONLINE has tested the super-fast internet surfing and found: Chrome not only promises a lot, but it has also - at speed, simplicity and technology.

FTD: But experts say the traditional business loses with software packages for each PC with the expansion of broadband Internet connections in importance. The quicker the connection to the network, the more programs are on central servers. From there they can be accessed by mobile devices. The browser is so crucial to the platform can be accessed from the from on a wide range of applications.

Star Online: Chrome represents a paradigm shift: IE, Firefox, Opera and Safari browser are in the classic sense. Your task is the rendering of Web pages. Google's browser on the other hand, designed from the ground up to run online applications. The road goes away from the individual PC and into the internet cloud. We still do not know what Chrome is actually afford. What we do know is that it perhaps will be the beginning of the end of the desktop operating system.