7, Operations Security 9, Security Architecture and Design 10, Telecommunication and Network Security According to market research firm Dittberner Associates released the latest data, calculated according to the number of users, the first quarter of this year China replaced the U.S. as the worlds largest fixed-line broadband market . Dittberner Associates released data show that the first quarter of 2008, the number of Chinese fixed-line broadband users reached 7160 million, an increase of 28% to surpass the U.S. as the worlds largest fixed-line broadband market. At the same time, the United States the number of fixed broadband users for the 7020 million, an increase of 12%. Overall, the global fixed broadband subscribers in the first quarter rose 5% to 355 million people. In addition to China and the United States, the worlds top ten fixed-line broadband market, including Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Korea, Italy, Canada and Spain. In these ten countries, the number of German fixed-line broadband subscribers growth rate ranked second, behind only South Korea less than than 4 percentage points. Faster growth in Germany, mainly due to the slow pace of broadband deployment in the past. Dittberner Associates, said the same of Germany has narrowed the gap between Japans third, but beyond is unlikely.
Control over two thirds of VMware virtualization software market. Server sales this year, there is a virtual software pre-installed less than 5% of VMware, and Microsoft increasing number of new competitors provide a huge room for growth. As strong sales of enterprise software, VMware third-quarter profit increased 2 times. In the past few quarters, VMwares sales are achieved with the same period doubled. VMware market value of about 400 billion U.S. dollars, making it second only to Microsoft, Oracle, SAPs fourth-largest listed software company. VMware said that its products can be used by almost all agencies to improve the efficiency of their IT infrastructure. Microsoft has entered the virtualization software market, but analysts estimate, with its third-generation technology, VMware is still 2-5 years to maintain the leading edge. Green said the virtualization software is a huge market, competitors have enough room for growth.