Web Meets World – Which Embedded OS?

Tim O’Reilly and John Batelle have been saying “Web Meets World” this year to described the convergence of web 2.0, wireless, low-cost internet devices, and sensor technologies, and the resulting emerging applications.  Tim O’Reilly describes an aspect of this as the instrumentation of the web.  This is a very broad area, and there are many emerging devices for the instrumentation and resulting applications, including military deployment.  Some examples are:

Example Devices	Embedded OS
Amazon Kindle	Linux
KORE Telematics (M2M devices)	Linux, proprietary embedded (?)
Laundryroom Twitter	Linux?
MIDs, Netbooks	Linux, Windows
Smart meters	Linux, proprietary embedded (?)
Smartphones	Linux, Windows, Symbian, BlackBerry OS
Sensor networks	TinyOS, real-time OS, proprietary, Linux, JAVA

Linux appears significant across these devices. 

Copyright (c) 2008 by Waiming Mok

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