Linux lies at the heart of another Silicon Valley takeover

“And it is very definitely the main reason behind Cavium
Networks acquisition of MontaVista Software.

“A truism of today’s processor industry is that embedded Linux
is the operating system of choice for developers.

“And the beauty of Linux, which is open source in one of its
manifestations, is that it is very rapidly permeating the whole of
the development community.

“The other attraction of Linux to chip firms like Intel and
Cavium, is that they no longer have to rely on software firms to
provide the OS which after all is the basic building block of most
embedded processor systems.”

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