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The LiMo Foundation, a body that aims to develop and promote a single Linux-based platform for mobile devices has chosen Wind River Systems' commercial Linux technology as the foundation for its Common Integration Environment (CIE).
According to Wind River "the CIE solution, including Wind River's unique build and configuration system with layers, mobile-optimised kernel distribution, and tool chain provides the fundamental building blocks that will help LiMo members fulfil the Foundation's goal of reducing fragmentation in the Linux mobile handset market. This selection further validates Wind River's position as the mobile industry's standard open source platform provider since all LiMo member contributions will be based on this CIE."
The LiMo Foundation (www.limofoundation.org ) was set up in January 2007 by Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics and Vodafone with the aim of creating the world's first globally competitive Linux-based software platform for mobile devices. In September 2007, MontaVista, which claims to be the leading provider of Linux for intelligent devices and communications infrastructure, joined the organisation . Handsets supporting the LiMo platform are expected to reach consumers in the first half of 2008.
"LiMo selected Wind River's technology because its unique environment is specifically designed to solve the fundamental problem of managing and integrating a rapidly evolving mobile phone stack and ecosystem, with contributions from numerous developers including mobile phone manufacturers, ISVs and the open source community," said Morgan Gillis, executive director of the LiMo Foundation. "With all future member contributions using Wind River's unique layers build system, Wind River will deliver a significant competitive advantage for LiMo. Wind River's support will further unify the mobile Linux industry and ecosystem."
Wind River says it will provide a platform for LiMo to develop, test, certify, and deploy commercial products consisting of components provided by various members of the Foundation. "The CIE will: allow LiMo to easily manage components developed by the diverse engineering teams of its members, maintaining quality and ultimately time to market as different application and middleware components are contributed, assembled, and tested within the LiMo platform; allow LiMo to easily update or exchange components, allowing OEMs and operators to differentiate their handsets while remaining within the LiMo standard; allow LiMo to leverage a standard suite of components and applications for multiple projects, which is key to the LiMo mission of reducing time to market for Linux handsets while driving the greatest innovation and differentiation; and reduce debugging, test, and validation cycle time by minimising challenges working with multiple versions of merged software."
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