Open source software for wireless applications has been slow coming, according to an article at IBM's DeveloperWorks, but with more corporate involvement that's changing. The article sketches the open source landscape for wireless, including the following projects:

• Private Branch Exchanges (PBX)
  • GNU Bayonne
  • Asterisk
• Commercial offerings for open platforms
  • Motorola and Embedix app dev tools
  • Nokia's Developer Suite for Linux
• Volunteer efforts
  • Jabber — open XML protocol for real-time message exchange
  • Morphis WAX — language and components for wireless content delivery
  • EnhydraME — J2ME edition of Enhydra Java/XML app server
• Wireless LAN Projects
  • Linux-WLAN project — 802.11-based wireless LAN system for Linux
  • Monitoring apps
    • KwiFiManager — KDE tools using configurator and link monitor wireless extensions
    • Qwireless — x86 and iPaq app for analyzing wireless LANs
    • Gwireless, a GNOME-based link monitor and configurator for 802.11b wireless cards using wireless extensions.

  • Open1x — open source version of the IEEE 802.1x authentication protocol using wireless extensions
  • OpenAP — 802.11b-compliant wireless access point
  • Kannel — open source WAP gateway and SMS gateway for GSM nets
  • Sputnik Community Gateway — 802.11-based network access gateways

The article notes that Linux and open source solutions lag further behind in some areas, such as wireless handset development.

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