In a recently completed report entitled Linux's Future in the Embedded Systems Market, Venture Development Corp. (VDC) studied the size and future growth trends of the worldwide market for Embedded Linux software solutions. VDC has provided LinuxDevices.com with the vendor rankings which resulted from responses to VDC's questions as to which Linux distributions are being used in current embedded… projects, and which are being evaluated for future use. The results are as follows . . .

Table 1: Linux Distribution Being Used
in Current Embedded Project
(in Rank Order)

1. Red Hat
   
2. Roll-Your-Own
   
3. Non-commercial Distribution
   
4. MontaVista Linux (MontaVista)
   
5. Other Commercial Distribution
   
6. BlueCat (LynuxWorks)
   
7. RedICE Linux (RedSonic)
   
8. TimeSys Linux GPL (TimeSys)

Table 2: Linux Distribution(s) Being Evaluated
for Use in an Embedded Project
(in Rank Order)

1. Red Hat
   
2. Roll-Your-Own
   
3. MontaVista Linux (MontaVista)
   
4. Embedix (Lineo)
   
5. Non-commercial Distribution
   
6. BlueCat (LynuxWorks)
   
7. Other Commercial Distribution
   
8. RedICE Linux (RedSonic)
   
9. TimeSys Linux GPL (TimeSys)

A whitepaper which summarizes the findings of the VDC study and includes several additional charts is available online, here.

 
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