"The Web site, dubbed Meld, is organized and supported by
MontaVista Software, which markets a Linux software stack,
services, support and tools for the embedded market. Linux-based
mobile phone operating systems, such as Android, and middleware
stacks such as the one from the
"LiMo Foundation, are coalescing, embraced by device makers and
carriers as a way of lowering costs and leveraging open source
development. But phones are only one, very visible, part of the
embedded market.
"Initially, Meld will provide the familiar Web-based forums that
many online community groups use to organize topics into searchable
discussion threads. Meld eventually will add tools such as wikis to
organize, update and share information, ideas, resources and even
code."
