Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 2nd Apr 2005 20:44 UTC
The future is mobile. That much we know for sure. But it seems that the operating system world in this market is being rapidly taken over by --again-- Microsoft. The new smart phones are are using WinCE, Symbian or Palm. Linux has barely 1% of this new, smartphone market.
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The basic flaw in the editorial is the lack of understanding of how commercial RTOS providers sell to their customers.
How do cell phone manufacturers (like Ericsson and Nokia) create their embedded OS'es? They licenced commercial RTOS kernels from WindRiver's VxWorks, Enea’s OSE RTOS and QSSL's QNX.
http://www.enea.com/templates/Page____158.aspx
It's like how Cisco keeps on talking about the new generation of their IOS operating system --- but Cisco doesn't really talk about how they based their new IOS OS on a RTOS kernel licensed from QNX.
It's like how GM's OnStar unit keeps on saying that their OnStar system is much better than other telematics systems such as Chrysler's QNX-based system or Microsoft's telematics system. The funny thing is that the OnStar system is based on QNX as well, but QSSL is prevented by NDA to talk about that.
It is highly likely that Symbian is based on some commercial RTOS kernel as well --- but the RTOS kernel provider can't talk about that too.