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Yahoo!/Investor’s Business Daily: Portable Linux Pact Quietly Fades Away, Leaving Questions

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 10, 2006

“A much-hyped partnership of two fast-growing Linux software
makers has quietly fizzled, raising questions about the free
operating system’s appeal beyond servers.

“More than two years after touting a deal to create a version of
Linux for phones and other handheld gadgets, Wind River Systems and
Red Hat are parting ways…”

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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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