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

Observations include:

• No single embedded Linux vendor dominates the market
• Tools are still important, but “Cost/Freeness” rules
• ARM is overtaking x86, for most popular processor architecture
• Developers favor support fees over runtime royalties
• Embedded Linux developers aren't afraid of SCO
• Embedded Linux popularity continues to grow

Along with colorful charts and a discussion of these key observations, complete survey data is available.

Reports and data from past LinuxDevices.com surveys:

• 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

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• SPECIAL REPORT: Eclipse consortium turns two
• SPECIAL REPORT: Wind River steps up to Linux
• SPECIAL REPORT: Update on SCO-vs.-Linux situation
• MontaVista on SCO-gate: an embedded perspective
• eCos copyright ownership unified under FSF

 
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