“The online polls will track developer and user trends and
preferences in the hot emerging market for Linux in non-desktop
“embedded” system applications.“
“LinuxDevices.com, the popular embedded Linux portal, today
launched the web’s first automated Embedded Linux Polls center. The
online polls will track developer and user trends and preferences
in the hot emerging market for Linux in non-desktop “embedded”
system applications. These are non-desktop applications for
computers where the device is not itself considered a computer,
such as ATM machines, internet kiosks, industrial process control,
medical instruments, and telecommunications devices.”
“In contrast to the desktop PC domain” says LinuxDevices.com
founder Rick Lehrbaum, “Microsoft doesn’t dominate the embedded
space.” “The big players, here, have until recently been Wind River
Systems (VxWorks), Microtec (VRTX), Microware (OS9), QNX Software
Systems (QNX OS), and Lynx Real-time Systems (LynxOS),” adds
Lehrbaum.”