This interview with Opera Software CEO and co-founder Jon S. von Tetzchner covers the Norwegian browser company's history, products, and roadmap. It sheds light on the growing importance of Linux in the embedded market, and the growing importance of the embedded market to Opera.

From the beginning of the interview:

“There's a lot of things happening in embedded in general, and a lot of this is becoming web-enabled. That's a positive trend that we think is only going to continue. The amount of projects that we're seeing, and the diversity of projects we've been involved in is huge…”

“We're up to almost 50 mobile phones, for example. More and more of those are based on Linux. We've made deliveries to Motorola and ZTe for their mobile phones. We've done the Nokia 770. We do the Sharp Zaurus PDAs. We're doing IP television, bar-code readers, airplane entertainment systems, shopping carts — all these are Linux based, by the way.”

“We're definitely seeing a trend toward Linux. More and more of the questions we're getting are Linux-related. We have two SDKs, and both are Linux-based. And, if you look at the number of Opera developers working on Linux, they're probably our biggest group…”

Read the complete interview here:

 
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