Indian mobile phone and carrier software vendor Jataayu is porting its Instant Messaging and Presence Service (IMPS) stack to Linux, along with several other device software stacks. It expects to ship several browsing and messaging clients for Linux devices in Q4, 2005, with initial support for MontaVista's Mobilinux OS.

Jataayu began beta tests of its IMPS stack last month, saying ongoing convergence between mobile and wired networks will provide new revenue opportunites in the IM space, particularly as IM applications gain voice, video, and other advanced chat capabilities.

Jataayu says it is working closely with MontaVista to port its IMPS stack to Linux, along with its more mature MMS (multimedia messaging) and WAP 2.0 browser stacks.

Additionally, Jataayu says it has joined MontaVista's Mobilinux partner ecosystem.

MontaVista launched its Mobilinux ecosystem in February, announcing a “Mobilinux” version of its OS a couple of months later. The company was expected to ship the first general availability version of its Mobilinux OS product as early as last month, after achieving in early September a long-awaited update to its flagship Professional 4.0 product, on which its other embedded Linux OS products are based.

Jataayu GM of Marketing Anil Krishnan said, “Our optimized messaging and browsing solutions [offer] modular mobile phone software architecture for differentiated phone designs.”

Jataayu also supplies “carrier grade infrastructure” software, and software aimed at enterprises and business with mobile workers. Interestingly, Jataayu offers several device products that support the Palm OS — Palm OS maintainer PalmSource partnered with MontaVista in August.

 
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