The results of LinuxDevices.com's sixth annual Embedded Linux Market Survey are in! Overall, we find the results encouraging for embedded Linux, and for companies in the embedded Linux OS and tools market. This brief summary outlines our interpretation of a few key data points.

Key observations include:

• Linux adoption leveling out, but still growing
• 2006: the year of the embedded Linux service provider?
• Software copyright concerns on the rise
• Sources of embedded Linux remain diverse
• Commercial embedded Linux remains an untapped opportunity
• Tools may be improving
• ARM remains top architecture

Along with colorful charts and a discussion of these key observations, complete survey data is also available, for those who wish to draw their own conclusions.

Read our latest market prognostication and form your own conclusions, here:

Research findings from various analysts:

• Embedded Linux market growing significantly, research firm says
• e-Seminar includes key embedded Linux market data
• Linux now top choice of embedded developers
• Linux poised to dominate world mobile handset market
• Linux trounces Windows Mobile in smartphone shipments
• VDC: mobile dev times longer, less predictable with Linux
• VDC: Microsoft top embedded vendor
• Linux squeezing WinCE, VxWorks out of devices
• Gartner/Dataquest: Embedded Linux now number one in Asia
• EDC: Embedded Linux remains #1 choice of developers — despite tools dissatisfaction
• Findings from EDC's Embedded Developer Survey — August, 2003
  
• Linux, Windows neck-and-neck in embedded
  
• Embedded Linux tops developers' 2002 wishlist
  
• Study finds 300% growth in Embedded Linux
  
• Interest in Embedded Linux skyrockets
  
• Whitepaper: Linux's Future in the Embedded Market
• Update on the Embedded Linux Market

Reports and data from past LinuxDevices.com surveys:

• Snapshot of the Embedded Linux market — May, 2005
• Snapshot of the Embedded Linux market — March, 2004
• Snapshot of the Embedded Linux Market — May, 2003
• What's so good about open source and Linux — in embedded? (2001 survey results)
• Archive of earlier LinuxDevices.com survey data

Other related stories:

• Anomalous embedded Linux survey results reported, retorted
• Two billion unit device market tilts toward off-the-shelf software
• The Great Gadget Smack-Down

 
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