5. Impacts
ITRON, the basis of the TRON project, has been applied in home electronic products, cellular phones, automobiles, facsimiles, digital cameras and other products. From 30% to 40% of embedded systems use ITRON and, especially, for home electronic products, 80% of systems in Japan used ITRON in 1999.
In the United States, the TRON association North America Liaison Office has been founded and 10 dealers deliver ITRON operating systems. In Korea, the Korea TRON association was founded in August 2000, and it has opened a home page for inquiries from Korean companies and is promoting TRON specification.
The combination of GNU software and Linux has been introduced in large numbers of computer systems. Their share is high in the worldwide market of server operating system deliveries. Recently, main computer makers have decided to adopt Linux. In December 2000, Linux has been adopted into the U.S. Army vehicle monitoring system that requires very high reliability.
The open development method also influences other software development. For example, in web server software development, this method was adopted and the web server software Apache was developed. The share of Apache was 30% in web server software in 1996, and 60% in 2000. Apache is the most popular web server software at present.
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