Friday, January 10, 2003
In a keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas, CEO of Sony stressed on the collaboration to establish the Linux operating system as the standard for transferring digital entertainment from device to device in the home in the coming age of consumer broadband.
``We are advocating global open standards for the seamless collaboration of networks,'' the CEO said Thursday.
The CEO said the company both competes and collaborates with Microsoft. For tasks like running Office software, Microsoft is the answer. But for simpler things like running a home network, Linux is perfectly capable, he said.
He continued to say that PCs may be useful in transmitting downloaded content to the TV but could also be bypassed since TV could directly get its content from gadgets like Sony's set-top box.
Sony's vision for digital entertainment is shared by many consumer electronics companies that are partners with Microsoft. But Sony is pushing non-Microsoft software in a wide variety of devices, like its PlayStation 2, Cli?handheld computers, Internet-connected cell phones etc.
By: DocMemory
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