Last year, Linuxcare acquired Prosa, the Italian Linux company that developed an embedded Linux distribution called EtLinux. Several months ago, Linuxcare announced that they were shutting down their European operations — apparently leaving the former Prosa team, and EtLinux, somewhat adrift. In this article, LinuxDevices.com's Rick Lehrbaum interviews Prosa's former General Manager and learns of a plan to resurrect Prosa and regain the lost momentum of EtLinux. Lehrbaum writes . . .

“One EtLinux developer characterized the situation following the acquisition as a shift towards contract development and away from product development (beyond a few minor enhancements), 'since we are buried with work for paying customers.' By October, that 'shift' took on a new twist, with a report that Linuxcare was closing down Linuxcare Italia.”

“Notwithstanding Linuxcare's lack of priority on EtLinux development, embedded Linux developers have continued to express strong interest in it for future embedded designs, as evidenced by snapshots of data collected in LinuxDevices.com's Embedded Linux Market surveys in February 2000 and December 2000.”

“Recognizing the continued interest in EtLinux, a former employee of Prosa recently told LinuxDevices.com, 'we hope to restart developing EtLinux' . . .”

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