In this guest editorial, Dr. Inder Singh, Chairman of LynuxWorks and Chairman of the Embedded Linux Consortium, explains the potential significance to the embedded market of the recently proposed ELC Platform Specification. Singh writes . . .

“The ELC initiative for a unified open platform for embedded Linux (the ELC Platform Specification) is a watershed event for the embedded industry. One of the most tantalizing promises of Linux for this highly fragmented market is the possibility of a single, open, multi-vendor standard platform for embedded software.”

“The embedded markets have never had the equivalent of a software platform like DOS or Windows around which a software industry could grow. Embedded developers have had to develop most of their software from scratch, with far fewer choices of tools and middleware to build upon than their mainstream counterparts, and there has been much effort expended reinventing the wheel for each project.”

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