Portable Linux Pact Quietly Fades Away, Leaving Questions
A much-hyped partnership of two fast-growing Linux software makers has quietly fizzled, raising questions about the free operating system's appeal beyond servers.Linux software makers has quietly fizzled, raising questions about the free operating system's appeal beyond servers.
More than two years after touting a deal to create a version of Linux for phones and other handheld gadgets, Wind River Systems and Red Hat are parting ways.
Going solo, Wind River last month launched the first major upgrade of its development platform for a version of Linux that will be embedded -- or "hard-wired" -- into electronic devices. It's also updating its Linux platform for network gear. That product will compete directly with Red Hat's main Linux software.
"That partnership sort of withered away."
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