[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“While the commercial use of Linux in the embedded market
continues to grow, VDC has reduced its forecast through 2007.
Included among the key factors impacting the forecast are:
- “Changing competitive landscape and strategic direction of
commercial embedded Linux software solution providers–A number of
companies have either failed, exited, or de-emphasized their
embedded strategy over the last two years (i.e., BluePoint,
Coventive, Neoware, Coollogic, Empower Technology, RidgeRun, Red
Hat, etc.).- “An increasing number of hardware and platform solution
providers offering a non-commercial open-source Linux distribution
with drivers for their hardware (i.e., EMJ Embedded Systems,
Octagon Systems, Micro/sys, Arcom, Accelent Systems, etc.)–In an
effort to further reduce costs, developers could opt to use these
solutions for their production shipments along with support from
the open source community, forgoing the need to acquire and pay for
a commercial solution…”