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HP Will Discontinue 'HP Anyware' Remote Desktop, Trusted Zero Clients

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Par : EditorDavid
kriston (Slashdot reader #7,886) writes: HP Anyware, the new name of the Teradici PCoIP remote desktop solution that was acquired by HP in 2021, is being discontinued. "Maintenance and support for customers and partners with multi-year terms will continue until 31 October, 2029," a href="https://anyware.hp.com/hp-anyware-end-of-life">according to HP's announcement. But HP is also announcing the planned End of Life for Anyware Trust Center and Trusted Zero Clients, with support now limited to setup and troubleshooting, no new updates or patches, and support ending in a little over six months on October 31, 2026. While for Desktop Access customers — Tera2 Zero Clients and PCoIP Management Console — "the previously announced EOL date remains December 31, 2029," sales have already ended for other customers. HP Anyware renewals are available for purchase through October 31 of 2027, but with a maximum one year term, with support ending October 31, 2028. HP says the decision "enables us to focus our resources on product categories where we can deliver the greatest customer value and drive long-term innovation."

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9 années de wallabag.it, merci Pocket

✇LinuxFr.org : les dépêches
Par : Nicolas Lœuillet · Ysabeau ? · Benoît Sibaud · Xavier Teyssier

wallabag est une application open source (licence MIT) qui sauvegarde des articles et vous permet de les lire plus tard, sur votre smartphone, votre tablette ou votre liseuse.

Un peu plus tard que les années précédentes, je prends le temps de rédiger ce billet. Le début d’année a été (et est encore) chargé, avec notamment les élections municipales, mais ce n’est pas le sujet.

Deuxième année spéciale, avec là encore, la fermeture d’un concurrent. Et non des moindres : l’historique Pocket.

Ça a généré un afflux massif de nouveaux clients, vous le verrez ci-dessous.

On en reparle dans la partie conclusion.

En parallèle de cette activité (en micro-entrepreneur), je suis salarié à 80% en tant que développeur web. Donc wallabag.it n’est pas mon activité principale et je n’y consacre pas énormément de temps. Et je ne fais aucune publicité du service.

C’est uniquement le bouche-à-oreille qui fonctionne.

Pour information, j’ai démarré wallabag.it le 3 décembre 2016.

Dans cette diffusion de données, je ne vais pas forcément chercher à comprendre / étudier telle ou telle donnée, ou alors réfléchir comment améliorer mon chiffre d’affaires. L’idée est d’être transparent avec mes clients et donner des idées à celles et ceux qui souhaiteraient se lancer.

Je ne vais pas non plus refaire l’historique du changement d’offres, ça se trouve dans les billets cités ci-dessous.

Voici les offres disponibles :

  • 3 mois pour 4 €
  • 1 an pour 11 €
  • 1 an pour 30 € (abonnement de soutien)

Nombre de factures

Une facture est un abonnement, peu importe que ça soit pour 3 mois ou 1 an, et peu importe sa valeur.

  • 2016 : 89 (un seul mois d’activité)
  • 2017 : 662 factures
  • 2018 : 787 factures (+18,9%)
  • 2019 : 959 factures (+21,9%)
  • 2020 : 1.266 (+32%)
  • 2021 : 1.526 (+20,5%)
  • 2022 : 1.531 (+0,3%)
  • 2023 : 1.496 (−2,3%)
  • 2024 : 1.656 (+10,7%)
  • 2025 : 3.281 (+98,1%)

Nombre moyen mensuel de factures :

  • 2016 : 89 (un seul mois d’activité)
  • 2017 : 55 factures / mois
  • 2018 : 65 factures / mois
  • 2019 : 79,9 factures / mois
  • 2020 : 105,5 factures / mois
  • 2021 : 127 factures / mois
  • 2022 : 127 factures / mois
  • 2023 : 125 factures / mois
  • 2024 : 138 factures / mois
  • 2025 : 273 factures / mois

Chiffre d’affaires (CA)

  • 2016 : 783 € (un seul mois d’activité)
  • 2017 : 6.093 €
  • 2018 : 7.593 € (+24,6%)
  • 2019 : 9.481 € (+24,9%)
  • 2020 : 12.922 € (+36,3%)
  • 2021 : 15.460 € (+21,5%)
  • 2022 : 15.735 € (+1,8%)
  • 2023 : 16.499 € (+4,9%)
  • 2024 : 19.536 € (+18,4%)
  • 2025 : 38.012 € (+94,6%)

CA mensuel moyen :

  • 2016 : 783 € (un seul mois d’activité)
  • 2017 : 507 €
  • 2018 : 632 €
  • 2019 : 790 €
  • 2020 : 1.076 €
  • 2021 : 1.288 €
  • 2022 : 1.311 €
  • 2023 : 1.375 €
  • 2024 : 1.628 €
  • 2025 : 3.167 €

Abonnement moyen (en moyenne, combien un client paie pour s’abonner) :

  • 2016 : 8,80 €
  • 2017 : 9,19 €
  • 2018 : 9,54 €
  • 2019 : 9,83 €
  • 2020 : 10,20 €
  • 2021 : 10,09 €
  • 2022 : 10,23 €
  • 2023 : 11,21 €
  • 2024 : 11,80 €
  • 2025 : 11,53 €

Type d’abonnements

  • 2017 : 342 abonnements à 9 € (+145 à 12 €, prix au départ de l’abonnement), 32 abonnements à 25 € et 80 abonnements à 3 € .* 2018 : 532 abonnements à 9 €, 93 abonnements à 25 € et 161 abonnements à 3 €
  • 2019 : 668 abonnements à 9 €, 118 abonnements à 25 € et 173 abonnements à 3 €
  • 2020 : 853 abonnements à 9 €, 173 abonnements à 25 € et 240 abonnements à 3 €
  • 2021 : 1084 abonnements à 9 €, 199 abonnements à 25 € et 243 abonnements à 3 €
  • 2022 : 1098 abonnements à 9 €, 207 abonnements à 25 € et 226 abonnements à 3 €
  • 2023 : 668 abonnements à 9 € et 398 abonnements à 11 €, 103 abonnements à 25 € et 91 abonnements à 30 €, 140 abonnements à 3 € et 96 abonnements à 4 €
  • 2024 : 1 202 abonnements à 11€, 173 abonnements à 30€ et 281 abonnements à 4€
  • 2025 : 2 352 abonnements à 11€, 324 abonnements à 30€ et 605 abonnements à 4€

Dépenses

En 2025, j’ai dépensé pour 2 372 € de frais (hébergement, nom de domaine, prestation admin sys, etc.), soit 198€ en moyenne par mois.
J’ai payé 2 207 € de commissions pour PayPal, PayPlug et Stripe, mes prestataires de paiement en ligne.
J’ai également payé environ 8 760 € de cotisations sociales.

Total : 13 340 €

Résultat net

  • 2017 : 3 130 €
  • 2018 : 3 454 €
  • 2019 : 4 823 €
  • 2020 : 6 591 €
  • 2021 : 9 034 €
  • 2022 : 9 401 €
  • 2023 : 9 977 €
  • 2024 : 12 171 €
  • 2025 : 24 672 €

Conclusion

Cette année 2025 a été folle en termes de nombre de nouveaux clients. Tous les chiffres ont explosés.

Et je vais avouer une chose : je suis très partagé sur tout ça.

Courant juin, j’ai eu peur de ne pas être capable d’absorber toute cette nouvelle charge. Ça a tenu (merci Luc pour l’infrastructure).

Mais par contre, je me sens parfois mal à l’aise vis-à-vis du projet opensource, sur lequel j’ai du mal à passer du temps. Et j’ai du mal aussi à suivre le support wallabag.it, avec pas mal de mails en attente à traiter.

Je ne me suis jamais fixé d’objectif d’une année sur l’autre. Mais clairement, 2026 ne fera pas mieux que 2025. Pour rappel, je ne fais aucune publicité pour trouver de nouvelles personnes.

De plus, l’arrivée de l’IA risque de chambouler un peu le secteur. De plus en plus d’applis voient le jour, donc ça risque de disperser les clients.

Autre problématique liée à l’IA : de plus en plus de sites bloquent le fait de « crawler » un site web et donc wallabag (et mon serveur) se voit bloqué à droite à gauche par des sites de contenus.

RDV l’an prochain pour faire le bilan des 10 années d’activité de ma micro-entreprise !

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Apple's Early Days: Massive Oral History Shares Stories About Young Wozniak and Jobs

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Par : EditorDavid
Apple's 50th anniversary is this week — and Fast Company's Harry McCracken just published an 11,000-word oral history with some fun stories from Apple's earliest days and the long and winding road to its very first home computers: Steve Wozniak, cofounder, Apple: I told my dad when I was in high school, "I'm going to own a computer someday." My dad said, "It costs as much as a house." And I sat there at the table — I remember right where we were sitting — and I said, "I'll live in an apartment." I was going to have a computer if it was ever possible. I didn't need a house. Woz even remembers trying to build a home computer early on with a teenaged Steve Jobs and Bill Fernandez from rejected parts procured from local electronics companies. Woz designed it — "not from anybody else's design or from a manual. And Fernandez was one of those kids that could use a soldering iron." Bill Fernandez: The computer was very basic. It was working, and we were starting to talk about how we could hook a teletype up to it. Mrs. Wozniak called a reporter from the San Jose Mercury, and he came over with a photographer. We set up the computer on the floor of Steve Wozniak's bedroom. Well, the core integrated circuit that ran the power supply that I built was an old reject part. We turned on the computer, and the power supply smoked and burnt out the circuitry. So we didn't get our photos in the paper with an article about the boy geniuses. But within a few years Jobs and Wozniak both wound up with jobs at local tech companies. Atari cofounder Nolan Bushnell remembers that Steve Jobs "wasn't a good engineer, but he was a great technician. He was pristine in his ability to solder, which was actually important in those days." Meanwhile Allen Baum had shared Wozniak's high school interest in computers, and later got Woz a job working at Hewlett-Packard — where employees were allowed to use stockroom parts for private projects. ("When he needed some parts, even if we didn't have them, I could order them.") Baum helped with the Apple I and II, and joined Apple a decade later. Wozniak remembers being inspired to build that first Apple I by the local Homebrew Computing Club, people "talking about great things that would happen to society, that we would be able to communicate like we never did [before] and educate in new ways. And being a geek would be important and have value." And once he'd built his first computer, "I wanted these people to help create the revolution. And so I passed out my designs with no copyright notices — public domain, open source, everything. A couple of other people in the club did build it." But Woz and Jobs had even tried pitching the computer as a Hewlett-Packard product, Woz remembers: Steve Wozniak: I showed them what it would cost and how it would work and what it could do with my little demos. They had all the engineering people and the marketing people, and they turned me down. That was the first of five turndowns from Hewlett-Packard. Steve Jobs and I had to go into business on our own. In the end, Randy Wigginton, Apple employee No. 6 remembers witnessing Jobs, Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne the signing of Apple's founding contract, "which is pretty funny, because I was 15 at the time." And it was Allen Baum's father who gave Wozniak and Jobs the bridge loan to buy the parts they'd need for their first 500 computers. After all the memories, the article concludes that "Trying to connect every dot between Apple, the tiny, dirt-poor 1970s startup, and Apple, the $3.7 trillion 21st-century global colossus, is impossible." But this much is clear: The company has always been at its best when its original quirky humanity and willingness to be an outlier shine through. Mark Johnson, Apple employee No. 13: I was in Cupertino just yesterday. It's totally different. They own Cupertino now. Jonathan Rotenberg, who cofounded the Boston Computer Society in 1977 at age 13: People want to hate Apple, because it is big and powerful. But Apple has an underlying moral purpose that is immensely deep and expansive... Mike Markkula, the early retiree from Intel whose guidance and money turned the garage startup into a company: The culture mattered. People were there for the right reasons — to build something transformative — not just to make money. That alignment produced extraordinary results... Steve Wozniak: Everything you do in life should have some element of joy in it. Even your work should have an element of joy... When you're about to die, you have certain memories. And for me, it's not going to be Apple going public or Apple being huge and all that. It's really going to be stories from the period when humble people spotted something that was interesting and followed it I'll be thinking of that when I die, along with a lot of pranks I played. The important things.

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HP Says Memory's Contribution To PC Costs Just Doubled To 35%

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Par : msmash
HP has revealed that memory now accounts for 35% of the cost of materials it needs to build a PC, up from between 15 and 18% last quarter. And the company expects RAM's contribution will rise through the year. From a report: Speaking on the company's Q1 2026 earnings call, interim CEO Bruce Broussard said the company has secured long-term supply agreements for the year and also "qualified new suppliers [and] built in strategic inventory positions for key platforms and cut the time to qualify new material in half to accelerate our product configuration changes." That sounds a lot like HP Inc is signing up new suppliers at a brisk pace. Broussard said the company has also "expanded lower-cost sourcing across our commodity basket, lowering logistics costs with agile end-to-end planning processes." The company is using its internal AI initiatives to power those new processes. The company is also "configuring our products and shaping demand to align the supply we have with our customer needs" and "taking targeted pricing actions to offset the remaining cost impact in close partnership with both our channel and direct customers."

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