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0308esd.p04 2/13/08 7:39 PM Page 4 #include BY Richard Nass Editor in Chief Richard Nass (201) 288-1904 rnass@cmp.com Managing Editor Susan Rambo srambo@cmp.com Contributing Editors Michael Barr John Canosa Jack W. Crenshaw Jack G. Ganssle Dan Saks Larry Mittag Art Director Debee Rommel drommel@cmp.com European Correspondent Colin Holland colin.holland@btinternet.com Embedded.com Site Editor Bernard Cole bccole@acm.org Production Manager Pete Scibilia pscibili@cmp.com Director of Audiences Services Kristi Cunningham kcunningham@cmp.com Subscription Customer Service P.O. Box 2165, Skokie, IL 60076 (800) 577-5356 (toll free), Fax: (847) 763-9606 embeddedsystemsdesign@halldata.com www.embeddedsystemsdesigncustomerservice.com Back Issues Kelly Minihan (800) 444-4881 (toll free), Fax: (785) 838-7566 Article Reprints, E-prints, and Permissions PARS International Corp. 102 West 38th Street, Sixth Floor New York, NY 10018 (212) 221-9595, Fax: (212) 221-9195 reprints@parsintl.com www.magreprints.com.quickquote.asp Publisher David Blaza (415) 947-6929 dblaza@cmp.com Editorial Review Board Michael Barr Jack W. Crenshaw Jack G. Ganssle Bill Gatliff Nigel Jones Niall Murphy Dan Saks Miro Samek LiMo Foundation aims to put Linux in your handset urple Labs has joined the LiMo Foundation. Unless you’re really in the know, you’ll probably look at this announcement the same way I did. I said, “Who is Purple Labs, and what is the LiMo Foundation?” But more importantly, “Why is this important to me?” Let me ﬁrst start with who the LiMo Foundation (www.limofoundation.org) is. Founded by Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Orange, Samsung Electronics, and Vodafone, the group claims to be an independent, not-for-proﬁt entity that strives to increase the adoption of Linux within the mobile industry, particularly for mobile handsets. The LiMo Foundation aims to leverage the mobile Linux platform (hence the name, LiMo) to create an open, transparent, scalable ecosystem spanning application and middleware developer communities and to encourage the creation of compelling, differentiated, and enhanced consumer experiences. Not too long ago, the LiMo member list grew with the addition of Aplix, Celunite, LG Electronics, McAfee, and Wind River as Core members. Additional Associate members include ARM, Broadcom, Ericsson, Innopath, KTF, MontaVista Software, and NXP. The Foundation, Richard Nass is editor in chief of Embedded Systems Design. You can reach him at rnass@cmp.com. P which is open to device manufacturers, operators, chip-set makers, independent software vendors, integrators, and third-party developers, expects to see the ﬁrst handsets supporting the LiMo platform reach the market in the ﬁrst half of 2008. It probably won’t come as much of a surprise to learn that Purple Labs (www.purplelabs.com) is a supplier of embedded Linux solutions for mobile phones. In addition to joining the LiMo Foundation as an Associate member, it will support the organization’s mission to develop a worldclass Linux-based software platform for mobile devices. The company claims to be the ﬁrst commercial Linux platform for feature phones in the consortium. This extends the LiMo initiative to mass-market mobile handsets. While I thought that Linux already had a place in this market, a ﬂavor of the operating system is now endorsed by an industry consortium, assuming that was even necessary. I’d probably argue to the contrary. Having to go through yet another governing body, albeit a light-handed governing body, still presents a roadblock to mass adoption. Good technologies tend to eventually ﬁnd their way into mainstream devices, regardless of whether they’re adopted by an industry group. I suspect the same will be true for Linux, if it’s not already true. Corporate David Levin Scott Mozarsky Tony Uphoff Robert Faletra Paul Miller Philip Chapnick Anne Marie Miller Marvlieu Jolla Hall Marie Myers Alexandra Raine Chairman Chief Financial Ofﬁcer President, CMP Business Technology Group President, CMP Channel President, CMP Electronics Group President, CMP Game, Dobb’s, ICMI Group Corporate Senior Vice President, Sales Senior Vice President, Human Resources Senior Vice President, Manufacturing Senior Vice President, Communications Richard Nass, rnass@cmp.com 4 MARCH 2008 embedded systems design www.embedded.com http://www.embedded.com http://www.purplelabs.com http://www.limofoundation.org http://www.embeddedsystemsdesigncustomerservice.com http://www.limofoundation.org http://www.magreprints.com.quickquote.asp http://www.embedded.com

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