LiMo Foundation selects Wind River as systems integrator

09 Feb 2009

LiMo Foundation has chosen Wind River as the systems integrator to deliver the common infrastructure, tools, testing and integration services for the LiMo platform.

Wind River, a Board member of LiMo Foundation, will provide technology and services to combine, harden and validate code contributions of LiMo members through a Common Working Environment (CWE).

According to Morgan Gillis, executive director of LiMo Foundation, operators and device manufacturers are turning to vendors they can trust to guide them through the evolving mobile software landscape. The acquisition of Wind River would enable LiMo to reduce Linux fragmentation while intensifying platform development through the rapid adoption of member contributions.

VisionMobile's research director, Andreas Constantinou, considers 2008 as the year when open source transitioned from a status of early adoption to one of acceptance and endorsement by the mobile industry as the new recipe for collaborative software development. "As one of the most prominent integrators for mobile Linux stacks, Wind River fills an important gap within the new mobile economy; customization, integration and validation of open source handset software", he added.