Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Linux Adoption in the Embedded Market Presents Challenges to Commercial
> Suppliers
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Recently published research by Venture Development Corporation
>| (VDC) indicates increasing adoption of Linux in embedded system
>| development projects. However, suppliers of branded commercial
>| embedded Linux solutions will continue to be challenged in
>| differentiating their Linux solutions from what is publicly
>| available and demonstrating real value in order to maintain
>| a premium for their products and support.
> `----
>
> http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/embedded/linux-adoption-embedded-market-presents-challenges-commercial-suppliers
>
> That's like saying that Novell will stuggle to sell SLED because Debain is
> equally valuable, which is probably a good thing, depending on whether you
> favour commercialisation of Linux or not.
It's a bit silly really, because it's confusing software-based lock-in
with real value-add. You could argue precisely the same thing about the
chassis, screws, nuts, bolts, power-supplies, processors, memory,
storage, interfaces, cards, shelves, connectors and so on. Most of
these components are near-identical in most such products, and yet it is
still possible to produce differentiable goods.
I suppose you come to a lifetime of equipment issue versus a lock-in
risk. The longer the kit is likely to last, the more risky the lock-in
becomes. Similarly, the more instances of deployment are likely to
happen, then the greater the lock-in risk.
Commercial suppliers should, I think, be increasingly focussing their
skills on providing customisation and support services into their
customer base, and charging for that, rather than trying to lock their
customers in to proprietary products.
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