This article published by the San Jose Mercury News takes a look at the growing impact of Linux on the embedded software market, and provides market analyst data on the overall market size, MontaVista Software's market share, and Wind River's recent performance.

The article says MontaVista had around 500 customers and revenues of $18M in 2002, the same year in which Wind River reported a net loss of $107 million on sales of $249 million. Competition from both Microsoft and other embedded Linux companies is also noted, as is the recently announced Consumer Electronics Linux Forum (CELF).

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