Bernard Levine, editor of Cahners ElectronicNews Online, reports that ZF Linux Devices Inc. has received $15M in funding and plans to target X86 PCs-on-a-chip for embedded applications. Levine writes . . . (more…)

Todd Spangler, editor of [email protected] Week, offers a perspective on yesterday's announcement by Lucent Technologies that it has exclusively licensed the Bell Labs developed Inferno operating system to Vita Nuovo. Vita Nuovo, a Lucent spinoff, concurrently announced that Inferno will be offered on a royalty-free, available-source (non-GPL) basis. (more…)

This whitepaper by MontaVista Software's VP of Engineering, Kevin Morgan, looks at how the Linux open-source license impacts traditional vendor/customer business relationships. Morgan reviews the key reasons why embedded system developers are attracted to Linux, and examines alternative approaches to converting open-source software into profitable businesses. (more…)

A new breed of system-on-chip silicon devices, in concert with embedded Linux, is helping to usher in the coming post-PC era. In this article, LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum identifies the key attributes and requirements of the coming generation of intelligent interconnected devices and systems, and examines the latest trends in high integration system-on-chip integrated circuits. (more…)

Overland Park, KS — (press release) — Informix Corporation has announced the release of Linux versions of two key products: Foundation.2000, for Internet data and content management; and Cloudscape, a Java database for embeddable systems and distributed e-Business applications. Foundation.2000 and Cloudscape on Linux enable developers and users to develop and deploy high performance, next generation… (more…)

Today, a growing number of companies vie for the attention of embedded systems developers seeking to build and deploy on Linux. Which are going to grow, thrive, and eventually lead the industry? Which technologies, licensing practices, business models and market forces will determine the leaders? (more…)

M-Systems has just announced a new form-factor version of their highly popular DiskOnChip flash-disk family — a 144-pin DIMM sized device called the “DiskOnChip DIMM2000”. DIMM witted? Certainly not! (more…)

Synergy Microsystems has announced its support for Linux with symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) on all of its PowerPC-based multiprocessor boards. The company claims that this represents the first Linux PowerPC release that supports SMP on VME and CompactPCI based CPU boards. (more…)

We've all heard about the coming “post-PC” era. Are we there yet? Is it just around the corner? Or, is the post-PC era just a bunch of hype? After all, most of us still use conventional PCs at work or home to do our computing. (more…)

Murray Hill, NJ, and York, ENGLAND — (press release) — Lucent Technologies and Vita Nuova, a network operating systems software provider, today announced that Vita Nuova has obtained the exclusive, global rights to the Inferno Operating System from Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs. Effective immediately, Vita Nuova is making the Inferno source code available to subscribers under inexpensive, commercial… (more…)

Websprocket has released JEMIni, a free, open-source Java programming language for embedded networked systems. JEMIni includes a set of foundation libraries equivalent to those found in commercial Java distributions. JEMIni also includes libraries suitable for device drivers, embedded system design, and embedded system design automation. (more…)

Embedded Linux receives special attention in Kansas, this week. Friday morning's keynote address at LINUXFest 2000 will be delivered by Kim Clark, vice president of engineering for Lineo. Clark will offer a Lineo perspective on the Embedded Linux Market. (more…)

London, UK — Lineo has announced the opening of a London-based European sales office. The new office will be headed up by Hamid Mirab, who joins Lineo as Vice President, European Sales and Services. (more…)

Hewlett-Packard Company and Intel Corporation have released a free IA-64 developer's kit that enables the Linux community to develop, test, debug and run IA-64 applications for the upcoming Intel Itanium processor. HP is committed to delivering Itanium processor-based servers and workstations that will support Linux and other operating systems. (more…)

TimeSys Corporation announced that its implementation of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) with real-time capability will soon be available for the Timesys Linux/RT platform. The Real-Time Specification for Java is nearing completion by the Real-Time Java Experts Group. The group, which includes TimeSys officers Dr. (more…)