Linked by David Adams on Tue 7th Oct 2008 15:46 UTC
An EE Times straw poll of embedded device makers in Europe found that while last year 50% said they planned to use Linux, that number had dropped to 33%. 26% said they planned to use a commercial OS, up from 15% a year ago.
Permalink for comment 332854
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
It all depends on the number of units you're expecting to sell. For instance, in Germany, a Windows CE licence costs about 10 â¬, now do the simple math.. If you're expecting to sell 10k units, that's A LOT OF MONEY.
For the money you save with the licences, you can easily hire some skilled Linux/*BSD people.
Member since:
2007-07-11
It all depends on the number of units you're expecting to sell. For instance, in Germany, a Windows CE licence costs about 10 â¬, now do the simple math.. If you're expecting to sell 10k units, that's A LOT OF MONEY.
For the money you save with the licences, you can easily hire some skilled Linux/*BSD people.