Microsoft Worried Over Linux Dominance In Embedded Space
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| Renames its family of products to target the embedded market.
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http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/26010/news.htm
The embedded market is larger than the desktop market (applications aside) and
will continue to grow.
Where Novell Can Beat Microsoft
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| ...there’s a market niche where Novell could give Microsoft really big
| headaches. It’s the embedded software market, where SuSE Linux Enterprise
| Real Time and SuSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service (not exactly embedded,
| but stick with The VAR Guy) are promising offerings.
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/04/16/where-novell-can-beat-microsoft/
More new announcements from the conference (it's almost exclusively Linux):
VirtualLogix Unveils VLX Support for Power Architectures(TM)
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| VLX for Network Infrastructure, supporting Power Architecture, speeds the
| adoption of rich open source software by combining Linux(TM) with real-time
| operating systems (RTOS) on shared hardware--all without compromising the
| system's deterministic real-time behavior.
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http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/industries/technology/article/virtuallogix-unveils-vlx-support-power-architecturestm_563508_12.html
Timesys Announces Embedded LinuxLink Support for Xilinx Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs
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| With this LinuxLink, subscribers will be provided with a ready to boot
| embedded Linux platform for Xilinx Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs. The Linux platform
| includes a 2.6.24 kernel, toolchain, full suite of integrated device drivers
| and an initial root file system; assembled to run on the Virtex-5 FXT
| platform’s embedded PowerPC® 440 processor cores.
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080416005751&newsLang=en
Sun and Wind River Partner to Deliver Carrier Grade Linux for Next-Generation
Networking on Sun's UltraSPARC(R) T2 Processor
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| With this announcement, Sun and Wind River will be providing the networking
| industry with a fully integrated, optimized and tested solution of the
| industry's leading multicore processing hardware and CGL, enabling companies
| to quickly develop and deploy next-generation enabled networking
| applications. Sun's Netra Carrier Grade rack servers and ATCA blades will be
| the first CMT systems to run Wind River Carrier Grade Linux.
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http://www.centredaily.com/business/technology/story/528768.html
Yesterday:
Who's afraid of embedded Linux? Microsoft
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| ...Microsoft is fighting a losing battle here. It's like gravity.
| Eventually you just stop fighting and learn to accept it. Even Microsoft.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9919632-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Related:
Linux to grow 278% in embedded/mobile/real-time apps
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| Linux use in "next" embedded, mobile, and real-time projects will grow 278
| percent over that in "previous" projects, suggests a recent survey by Venture
| Development Corp. (VDC).
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7115758310.html
Linux the fastest-growing smartphone OS
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| Meanwhile, in the world's largest mobile phone market (China), Linux already
| has a 30 percent share, CCID Consulting Company said in March.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9422438794.html
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