“Another fellow whose company is reluctantly moving to
32-bit software attended this show specifically to check out
Microsoft Windows CE version 3.0 — only to watch it blue-screen
during the demo. That, among other things, eliminated CE as a
possibility for his work…“
“Regardless, I can see now that Linux is very likely to succeed
in the embedded systems space regardless of fragmentation because
it is free (or nearly so, depending on where you get it).”
“So while most of the folks I talked to acknowledge that there
are many embedded operating systems that are far better than Linux,
they say the low price of Linux often makes the choice a
no-brainer.”