[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“Thanks to its stature in the enterprise server arena, Linux has
emerged as the OS dark horse in the race to gain market share on
cell phones. A small set of vendors is backing open source to
challenge cell phone OS rivals Microsoft, Palmsource, and
Symbian.“The opening salvo came in July when some of the largest volume
handset manufacturers agreed to create the CE (Consumer
Electronics) Linux Forum in an attempt to extend Linux to meet the
needs of CE devices, including cell phones. Founding members
include Matsushita Electric Industrial, Sony, Hitachi, NEC, Royal
Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Sharp, and
Toshiba…”