Will Enterprise Open Source Scale the Walled Gardens of the Cellular Network
Providers?
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| Lately, I've been researching the feasibility of running Linux on any of the
| several excellent smartphone platforms out there. There's the long running
| Treos 650/680/700 that have a lot of units in service and surprisingly
| consistent internal technology with which to focus an open OS development
| team on. Developer interest in the platform seems to be growing (link to
| shadowmite and hack'n dev).
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| [...]
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| All of this is a leap in level of service and an order of magnitude drop in
| cost. Are the cellular providers going to like it? No. Can they stop it? Yes.
| They can lock their phones from being taken over by the open source
| community. Will they succeed? I don't know but the question is "what doesn't
| run Linux these days?"
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http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/400928_p.htm
Related:
70 percent of smartphones use Symbian
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| At 3GSM it became clear that 70 percent of all smartphones use Symbian.
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| Linux accounts for 16.9 percent of the smartphone market and only
| 4.6 percent uses Microsoft Windows Mobile.
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http://www.dvhardware.net/article17134.html
Linux expected to be leading Smartphone OS market by 2010
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| I just came across this research by Diffusion Group, which found
| that Linux is set to become the leading Smartphone OS by 2010.
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http://irfanhabib.wordpress.com/2006/12/10/linux-to-take-over-smartphone-os-market-by-2010/
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