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LinuxDevices.com: Lineo dons real-time battle dress

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 13, 2000

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“Lineo Inc. today announced formation of the Lineo Industrial
Solutions Group. The new Lineo unit, based primarily on the
company’s recent Zentropix acquisition, is chartered to focus on
markets requiring real-time OS support, such as industrial control,
military, and streaming media applications. Jim Norton, former CEO
of Zentropix, has been named General Manager of the new Industrial
Solutions Group. Through this move, Lineo is clearly signaling
its intention to go head-to-head with RTOS leader Wind River
Systems as well as fellow embedded Linux players MontaVista and
LynuxWorks.

“Zentropix was one of the earliest commercial players in the
embedded Linux market and has been in the forefront of real-time
Linux solutions development since 1998. The company initially
supported RTLinux, the most popular real-time Linux implementation,
but over the past six months has shifted its attention primarily to
RTAI….”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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