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[News] On Linux Popularity/Dominance in the Embedded Space

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An interview with Jim Ready

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| We can all be quite proud of the enormous progress Linux has made in 
| transforming the embedded OS marketplace from one which was highly fragmented 
| and largely devoid of standards, to an environment based upon a highly 
| functional OS which is a truly open standard: Linux.    
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http://lwn.net/Articles/285099/

Linux prominent in chip show awards

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| Timesys won Best in Show at the 2008 Freescale Technology Forum (FTF) for its 
| Online Linux Factory. San Juan Software won the other Best in Show for its 
| ZigBee controller platform, and Nuvation won an award for an 
| air-hockey-playing "Flexis AC Face-off" robot (pictured).   
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6259486465.html


Recent:

Why Linux won the embedded market?

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| One story not told often enough involves Linux’ growing domination of the
| embedded market.
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| In this space Linux usually stacks up against older Real Time Operating
| Systems (RTOS). The decision by Wind River, the largest RTOS vendor, to
| migrate toward Linux was a turning point.
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| There has been no turning back. But this is not an open source story. In
| fact, the embedded Linux business looks a lot like the rest of the embedded
| market.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2501


Microsoft Worried Over Linux Dominance In Embedded Space

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| Renames its family of products to target the embedded market.
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http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/26010/news.htm


Who's afraid of embedded Linux? Microsoft

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| ...Microsoft is fighting a losing battle here. It's like gravity.
| Eventually you just stop fighting and learn to accept it. Even Microsoft.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9919632-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
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