FRAMINGHAM, USA: A recent IDC study reveals that worldwide revenue from Linux operating system software grew by 23.4 percent from 2007 to 2008, and that growth will be followed by a 2008-2013 CAGR of 16.9 percent. With this growth, worldwide Linux operating systems revenue will cross $1 billion for the first time in 2012, growing to $1.2 billion by 2013.
By comparison, Linux server operating system subscriptions will exhibit a different profile, with a contraction of net new subscriptions expected in 2009, followed by a steady recovery through 2013.
Meanwhile, nonpaid Linux server operating system deployments are predicted to grow more quickly than new subscriptions through 2013, leading to a net increase of nonpaid Linux server operating systems deployed compared to total worldwide Linux server operating systems being placed into service.
The combined total of Linux server operating system subscriptions and nonpaid deployments is expected to show a 2008-2013 CAGR of 1.1 percent -- a low growth rate that is impacted significantly by the anticipated contraction in 2009.
IDC notes that this low growth rate of new deployment can be misleading, since growth of virtualized deployments will also be taking place aboard existing servers, a metric not directly considered in the predicted growth of net new subscriptions and deployments.
"The dynamics we are seeing here are fascinating. The convergence of the difficult economic conditions, the maturing of enterprise virtualization software, and the increasing use of replica copy deployments of Linux server operating systems is leading to a shift where the success of the market is increasingly defined by the installed base rather than by the number of brand new subscriptions or deployments being made,” said Al Gillen, program vice president, System Software at IDC. “This phenomenon is not unique to Linux –- as we see the same trend playing out with Windows server operating environments.”
Gillen adds, “We find that more customers are seeing nonpaid Linux as a viable solution for certain non-critical business needs, despite the lack of commercial applications and the potential support challenges that come with a non-commercially-supported distribution.”
Additional key findings include:
* The top revenue-producing vendors are Red Hat and Novell, which together account for 94.5 percent of worldwide Linux operating systems revenue in 2008.
^ In terms of new subscriptions of server operating environments, Red Hat and Novell accounted for 90 percent of worldwide Linux subscriptions in 2008.
* Nonpaid Linux server operating systems continues to increase in importance on the overall market dynamics, with nonpaid Linux server operating system deployments accounting for 43.3 percent of the worldwide total, up from 41.4 percent in 2007.
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
Friday, July 31, 2009
Mentor unveils Android, Embedded Linux strategy by acquiring Embedded Alley
Design Automation Conference 2009, SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Mentor Graphics Corp.unveiled its Android and Linux strategy, including the acquisition of Embedded Alley Solutions Inc., an innovative leader in Android and Linux development systems.
By combining Embedded Alley’s Android and Linux products and services with the Mentor Graphics Nucleus real-time operating system (RTOS), tools and middleware, Mentor can now provide device manufacturers with all the software they need to build their products, and work closely with them throughout their product lifecycle to supply tools and services at every stage.
“Mentor’s strategy acknowledges two strong trends we see in embedded device development today,” stated Glenn Perry, Mentor Graphics Embedded Systems Division General Manager.
“One is a huge demand for Google’s Android platform in new, complex devices beyond the mobile phones for which Android was originally developed. The other is the growing use on multi-core processors of multiple operating systems, usually Linux and an RTOS like Nucleus. Our investment in Embedded Alley, and its products, open source expertise, and services, will allow our customers to innovate and build better products with power savings, performance optimization, and reduced system cost and risk.”
Mentor’s Android, Linux, and Nucleus products and services provide all the tools, runtime components and expertise required for customers to get to production with innovative products.
This ecosystem for Android- and Linux-based devices is supported by leading semiconductor partners, including ARM, Freescale, Marvell, MIPS, RMI, and Texas Instruments (TI). In separate announcements today, Mentor Graphics revealed support for the ARM Mali graphics processing unit family, Freescale Power Architecture processors and Marvell Sheeva MV78200 Dual-core Embedded Processors.
Embedded Alley was the first to market commercial Android tools and services in May 2009, for the RMI Au1250 SoC and the MIPS architecture.
“The Embedded Alley team is excited to bring our vast experience in open source development to Mentor Graphics,” said Pete Popov, CEO of Embedded Alley. “This is a huge win for our customers, who can now benefit from the combination of Embedded Alley's services and development systems with Mentor's products, services and outstanding support.”
“TI is pleased to learn that Mentor Graphics has acquired Embedded Alley, allowing Mentor to provide additional value to our customers developing with Android and/or Linux on our various TI solutions, including our OMAP35x platform,” said Gerard Andrews, OMAP35x product line manager, TI.
“With the combined expertise from Mentor Graphics and Embedded Alley, we’re confident that they will be able to deliver innovative and even stronger multi-OS/multi-core products that inspire new Linux- and Android-based designs. We’re excited and look forward to seeing the synergy between these two companies and their solutions that ultimately addresses our customers’ key careabouts on an open software platform, community participation and support.”
Perry continued: “As early developers in embedded Linux, Embedded Alley is well-known in the open source community, both as active participants in major projects such as OpenEmbedded, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture, and Linux kernel development, and as leaders in commercial development based on open source software. Their strong reputation follows them into the Android commercial tool market, now placing Mentor Graphics at the forefront of open source software in embedded devices.”
Embedded Alley gained a tremendous lead in Android solutions by investing early and building on their deep Linux/open source experience and technologies. As pioneers in the embedded Linux community, the Embedded Alley team has been instrumental in defining product offerings, shaping business models and building market strategies for embedded systems.
Its unique approach to commercial open source products avoided “boxed” Linux distributions, and gave developers more flexibility and immediate access to the latest open source innovations.
By combining Embedded Alley’s Android and Linux products and services with the Mentor Graphics Nucleus real-time operating system (RTOS), tools and middleware, Mentor can now provide device manufacturers with all the software they need to build their products, and work closely with them throughout their product lifecycle to supply tools and services at every stage.
“Mentor’s strategy acknowledges two strong trends we see in embedded device development today,” stated Glenn Perry, Mentor Graphics Embedded Systems Division General Manager.
“One is a huge demand for Google’s Android platform in new, complex devices beyond the mobile phones for which Android was originally developed. The other is the growing use on multi-core processors of multiple operating systems, usually Linux and an RTOS like Nucleus. Our investment in Embedded Alley, and its products, open source expertise, and services, will allow our customers to innovate and build better products with power savings, performance optimization, and reduced system cost and risk.”
Mentor’s Android, Linux, and Nucleus products and services provide all the tools, runtime components and expertise required for customers to get to production with innovative products.
This ecosystem for Android- and Linux-based devices is supported by leading semiconductor partners, including ARM, Freescale, Marvell, MIPS, RMI, and Texas Instruments (TI). In separate announcements today, Mentor Graphics revealed support for the ARM Mali graphics processing unit family, Freescale Power Architecture processors and Marvell Sheeva MV78200 Dual-core Embedded Processors.
Embedded Alley was the first to market commercial Android tools and services in May 2009, for the RMI Au1250 SoC and the MIPS architecture.
“The Embedded Alley team is excited to bring our vast experience in open source development to Mentor Graphics,” said Pete Popov, CEO of Embedded Alley. “This is a huge win for our customers, who can now benefit from the combination of Embedded Alley's services and development systems with Mentor's products, services and outstanding support.”
“TI is pleased to learn that Mentor Graphics has acquired Embedded Alley, allowing Mentor to provide additional value to our customers developing with Android and/or Linux on our various TI solutions, including our OMAP35x platform,” said Gerard Andrews, OMAP35x product line manager, TI.
“With the combined expertise from Mentor Graphics and Embedded Alley, we’re confident that they will be able to deliver innovative and even stronger multi-OS/multi-core products that inspire new Linux- and Android-based designs. We’re excited and look forward to seeing the synergy between these two companies and their solutions that ultimately addresses our customers’ key careabouts on an open software platform, community participation and support.”
Perry continued: “As early developers in embedded Linux, Embedded Alley is well-known in the open source community, both as active participants in major projects such as OpenEmbedded, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture, and Linux kernel development, and as leaders in commercial development based on open source software. Their strong reputation follows them into the Android commercial tool market, now placing Mentor Graphics at the forefront of open source software in embedded devices.”
Embedded Alley gained a tremendous lead in Android solutions by investing early and building on their deep Linux/open source experience and technologies. As pioneers in the embedded Linux community, the Embedded Alley team has been instrumental in defining product offerings, shaping business models and building market strategies for embedded systems.
Its unique approach to commercial open source products avoided “boxed” Linux distributions, and gave developers more flexibility and immediate access to the latest open source innovations.
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Operating systems used in embedded systems -- Volume 1: Linux
DUBLIN, IRELAND: Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Operating Systems Used in Embedded Systems - Volume 1: Linux" report to their offering.
As part of its Embedded Software 2008 Market Intelligence Service, VDC Research Group (VDC) is pleased to release a study covering the worldwide market for Linux employed in the development of embedded systems.
Specifically, the research efforts focused on the market for:
* Commercial Linux distributions,
* Microkernel/virtualization operating systems used to enable the deployment of Linux-based embedded systems,
* Software development tools used to develop Linux-based embedded systems that are closely associated with development of the operating system, and
* Maintenance, support, and professional services related to the above products.
Although originally developed for general-purpose use on desktops and servers, the use of Linux within embedded devices continues to increase. The licensing cost advantages associated with Linux, the flexibility provided through access to its source code, and a general familiarity with its use provide a compelling value proposition to embedded system developers.
The ecosystem of applications and tools built in support of embedded Linux has also continued to mature as developers have gained more experience and knowledge of its use within embedded systems. Advances in the kernel and other enabling technologies have helped drive adoption in markets where Linux had limited penetration in the past.
However, challenges still remain in some applications/markets for certain embedded devices where small footprint, real-time support, and/or high levels of security are hard requirements.
VDC expects that embedded Linux will remain a viable option to other commercial embedded operating systems going forward. However, the continued evolution of the Linux operating system and other publicly distributed open source solutions will create ongoing challenges for commercial Linux solution vendors as well.
These Linux suppliers will be under increasing pressure to add additional, differentiating value to their solutions in order to justify the purchase of commercial distributions and tools over what is publicly available. In addition, distributions from hardware vendors and those bundled in software stacks and development platforms are becoming increasingly sophisticated and, in many cases, adequate for certain embedded projects' requirements.
As part of its Embedded Software 2008 Market Intelligence Service, VDC Research Group (VDC) is pleased to release a study covering the worldwide market for Linux employed in the development of embedded systems.
Specifically, the research efforts focused on the market for:
* Commercial Linux distributions,
* Microkernel/virtualization operating systems used to enable the deployment of Linux-based embedded systems,
* Software development tools used to develop Linux-based embedded systems that are closely associated with development of the operating system, and
* Maintenance, support, and professional services related to the above products.
Although originally developed for general-purpose use on desktops and servers, the use of Linux within embedded devices continues to increase. The licensing cost advantages associated with Linux, the flexibility provided through access to its source code, and a general familiarity with its use provide a compelling value proposition to embedded system developers.
The ecosystem of applications and tools built in support of embedded Linux has also continued to mature as developers have gained more experience and knowledge of its use within embedded systems. Advances in the kernel and other enabling technologies have helped drive adoption in markets where Linux had limited penetration in the past.
However, challenges still remain in some applications/markets for certain embedded devices where small footprint, real-time support, and/or high levels of security are hard requirements.
VDC expects that embedded Linux will remain a viable option to other commercial embedded operating systems going forward. However, the continued evolution of the Linux operating system and other publicly distributed open source solutions will create ongoing challenges for commercial Linux solution vendors as well.
These Linux suppliers will be under increasing pressure to add additional, differentiating value to their solutions in order to justify the purchase of commercial distributions and tools over what is publicly available. In addition, distributions from hardware vendors and those bundled in software stacks and development platforms are becoming increasingly sophisticated and, in many cases, adequate for certain embedded projects' requirements.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Timesys' LinuxLink support for TI's DaVinci platform
PITTSBURGH, USA: Timesys Corp., a provider of LinuxLink, the first commercial software development framework for building custom embedded Linux based products, has announced support for Texas Instruments' DaVinci DM6446 and DM355 processors.
With support for DaVinci reference board device drivers including Ethernet, Serial, LCD display, Audio, USB and more, LinuxLink customers can easily leverage DaVinci's unique features and achieve a fast Linux product design and implementation cycle.
DaVinci users will benefit from the LinuxLink framework which features an award-winning build system (called Factory) that provides both the easy-to-use wizard for creating an initial Linux starting image and a build engine that enables customers to design and build a completely custom and highly optimized Linux platform from source code.
"The DaVinci DM6446 and DM355 processors are widely used for embedded products," said Charlie Ashton, Vice President of Business Development at Timesys. "We are excited to enable support for these platforms with our award-winning build system that accelerates the development of high-quality Linux products."
LinuxLink has been adopted by customers worldwide and is attractively priced. The framework supports software engineering teams throughout their entire embedded product development process, including custom platform assembly, application development and final system integration.
LinuxLink customers benefit from the latest code from processor vendors as well as from the open source community. The Factory wizard allows customers to choose from the latest GNU-based optimized toolchains enabled with uClibc and glibc libraries. The framework allows for creation of a footprint-optimized root filesystem (RFS) with application-specific features selected from hundreds of available software packages. Package categories include multimedia, networking, storage, security, industrial and more.
For maximum flexibility, developers benefit from both the online build system and the desktop-hosted version. With either interface, customers leverage the best Linux code from Texas Instruments and the open source community. The desktop version offers more flexibility than any other Linux build platform by allowing users to integrate third-party packages and proprietary software. LinuxLink's update service automatically notifies customers of changes to any of the components used in their project.
LinuxLink comes with commonly used development tools, including, but not limited to GDB, OProfile and mpatrol. These tools help customers ensure the quality of their final product. Customers receive technical support from expert Timesys engineers and have access to a vast suite of documentation.
For a limited time, developers can obtain free LinuxLink access to quickly configure, build and evaluate embedded Linux on Texas Instruments' DaVinci processors by registering at https://linuxlink.timesys.com/register/factory. Developers should enter promotion code TI6446 when completing the online free trial registration form.
With support for DaVinci reference board device drivers including Ethernet, Serial, LCD display, Audio, USB and more, LinuxLink customers can easily leverage DaVinci's unique features and achieve a fast Linux product design and implementation cycle.
DaVinci users will benefit from the LinuxLink framework which features an award-winning build system (called Factory) that provides both the easy-to-use wizard for creating an initial Linux starting image and a build engine that enables customers to design and build a completely custom and highly optimized Linux platform from source code.
"The DaVinci DM6446 and DM355 processors are widely used for embedded products," said Charlie Ashton, Vice President of Business Development at Timesys. "We are excited to enable support for these platforms with our award-winning build system that accelerates the development of high-quality Linux products."
LinuxLink has been adopted by customers worldwide and is attractively priced. The framework supports software engineering teams throughout their entire embedded product development process, including custom platform assembly, application development and final system integration.
LinuxLink customers benefit from the latest code from processor vendors as well as from the open source community. The Factory wizard allows customers to choose from the latest GNU-based optimized toolchains enabled with uClibc and glibc libraries. The framework allows for creation of a footprint-optimized root filesystem (RFS) with application-specific features selected from hundreds of available software packages. Package categories include multimedia, networking, storage, security, industrial and more.
For maximum flexibility, developers benefit from both the online build system and the desktop-hosted version. With either interface, customers leverage the best Linux code from Texas Instruments and the open source community. The desktop version offers more flexibility than any other Linux build platform by allowing users to integrate third-party packages and proprietary software. LinuxLink's update service automatically notifies customers of changes to any of the components used in their project.
LinuxLink comes with commonly used development tools, including, but not limited to GDB, OProfile and mpatrol. These tools help customers ensure the quality of their final product. Customers receive technical support from expert Timesys engineers and have access to a vast suite of documentation.
For a limited time, developers can obtain free LinuxLink access to quickly configure, build and evaluate embedded Linux on Texas Instruments' DaVinci processors by registering at https://linuxlink.timesys.com/register/factory. Developers should enter promotion code TI6446 when completing the online free trial registration form.
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