:Inter@ctive Week: IBM 'Vikings' Seek More Linux Conquests [w/Bluetooth]
Inter@ctive Week: IBM 'Vikings' Seek More Linux Conquests [w/Bluetooth]
Jul 31, 2000, 21 :37 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (2769 reads) (Other stories by Mary Jo Foley) (As seen on LinuxInsider.com)
"Linux champion IBM Corp. -- which has become
increasingly intent on making Linux pervasive on
every platform from handhelds to mainframes -- is
now bringing the Bluetooth wireless protocol to the
open-source operating system."
"It's time. Bluetooth hasn't really taken off because there
aren't all that many Bluetooth applications," said Daniel
Jue, manager of IBM's AlphaWorks Web site. "We
believe Linux will encourage more developers to write (for
Bluetooth)."
"Bluetooth is a short-range wireless technology
championed by makers of cell phones, PDAs and other
devices. So far, Bluetooth devices actually shipping have
been few and far between.
Yet a growing number of Linux vendors are targeting the
embedded market as a hot investment, thus making a
Linux Bluetooth port an interesting prospect."
