Hot Products for Mobile Linux

To search for hot products in the mobile-Linux sector is a challenge. Think of it like looking for a really hot car in the year 1901: You could find something with four wheels and motor, but the V8 was still in the distance. "If you get the sense that Linux as a mobile OS is very immature, you'd be right," John Jackson, Yankee Group analyst covering the wireless market, told NewsFactor. "Besides MontaVista, you're not seeing a wholesale mobile-Linux development initiative. It's in its very early days."

Leading Linux vendor Red Hat announced its first embedded initiative only in the last several weeks. Novell, owner of No. 2 ranked Linux vendor SuSE, is merely pondering the market.

That MontaVista is a leader is itself evidence of how young the sector is, Jackson said. "We don't yet know what MontaVista Linux looks like when it runs devices. We don't have commercial examples of this technology yet.

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