Tuesday, January 27, 2004
IBM Likes Linux - And They Want to Build a Linux PDA
Posted by Jason Dunn in "THOUGHT" @ 04:00 PM
"IBM tackled LinuxWorld in New York on many fronts. Its software group preached the open-source Linux gospel and spoke of how IBM now offers software and hardware based on Linux platforms that include PDAs, car communications, workstations and its PlayStation III project with Sony, for which IBM's semiconductor group, IBM Microelectronics, will be highly instrumental.
IBM touted a PDA prototype based on a Linux operating system and its PowerPC processor.
In hardware, IBM now has set stakes in Linux based servers, workstations and PDAs. A common, open-sourced Linux platform, IBM claims, is more conducive for the so-called pervasive computing concept where any and all electronics applications are linked and networked. But in addition to Linux, IBM is also quick to play up its PowerPC processor architecture and the role it will have in the non-PC revolution."
Can a Linux PDA take off? We've heard this before, and seen it in the form of the Sharp Zarus, but no market share report I've read has listed the Zarus as making much of a splash in the market. Would an entry from IBM be any different?
IBM touted a PDA prototype based on a Linux operating system and its PowerPC processor.
In hardware, IBM now has set stakes in Linux based servers, workstations and PDAs. A common, open-sourced Linux platform, IBM claims, is more conducive for the so-called pervasive computing concept where any and all electronics applications are linked and networked. But in addition to Linux, IBM is also quick to play up its PowerPC processor architecture and the role it will have in the non-PC revolution."
Can a Linux PDA take off? We've heard this before, and seen it in the form of the Sharp Zarus, but no market share report I've read has listed the Zarus as making much of a splash in the market. Would an entry from IBM be any different?
