An Industry and Technology Revolution is on the Horizon
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| Today this landscape has started to fundamentally change. Larger software
| players now bring significantly greater value propositions and delivery
| capabilities to mobile Linux, while there is a growing perception that a
| common public Linux distribution accessible to all players in the value chain
| is a critical least-common-denominator running across multiple Linux
| middleware choices. Indeed, while earlier commercial efforts focused on
| providing know-how to the kernel, the remaining 95% of what is required to
| build a Linux device (a common Linux integration environment, a single
| cockpit tools suite, deep mobile Linux engineering skills in hardware and
| middleware integration and testing, broad global commercial support,
| warranties and maintenance, et al.) was missing.
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| As a result, 2008 signals the start of fundamental changes to the mobile
| software market as the industry begins the next generation of Linux platform
| deployments.
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http://blogs.windriver.com/wind_river_blog/2008/01/an-industry-and.html
Related:
Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco: Linux Is Mobile's Future
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| LinuxInsider met with Capobianco to discuss his view on the role of open
| source in creating Mobile 2.0 as a voice and data carrier parallel to the
| Internet. The meeting occurred in the wake of Google's announcement earlier
| this month that it was negotiating with wireless carriers, handset makers,
| software developers and hardware providers to use an open source mobile
| platform, Android.
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http://www.technewsworld.com/story/60340.html
Linux Sees 'Astronomic' Growth in Mobile Devices
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| "We were very aware that the growth in mobile for Linux was huge, but we
| didn't know it was so astronomic," Amanda McPherson, marketing director for
| the Linux Foundation, told LinuxInsider. "These are very encouraging
| numbers." Why Linux has drawn significant support from the community of
| handset manufacturers can be explained on several fronts, McPherson said.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/59162.html
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