“12 years ago, when I first began selling GNU tools to software
developers, I was quite amazed at how much more nimble, in general,
were the embedded developers in comparison to those doing
enterprise development. Many UNIX developers were wasting
incredible amounts of time dealing with gratuitous platform issues,
RAD tools that didn’t work, vaporware that promised much and
delivered nothing but headaches, etc. In contrast, I met many
embedded developers who were working at break-neck speed on truly
ground-breaking systems that would themselves become the key
infrastructure of enterprise computing: Cisco routers, Nortel
switches, EMC storage systems, etc.“Having spent the past 12 months reviewing the relative
efficiencies and effectiveness of enterprise development tools and
methodologies compared with those of embedded systems developers,
it’s becoming clear to me that the pendulum of relative advantage
has swung far away from the embedded developers and toward those
running Linux as an enterprise environment. And, like Christensen,
I don’t see that this has happened because the embedded developers
or their management have suddenly lost their mettle. Instead, the
effects of disruptive technologies have fundamentally changed the
dynamics of software development, and have done so in a way that
threatens virtually every company designing embedded systems today,
with or without designs incorporating embedded Linux…”
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