An Open, Device-Independent Mobile Linux Platform in the ...
HELSINKI, Finland, September 29, 2011 – /PRNewswire/ –
The open-source ecosystem for smart mobile devices is getting new wind in its sails as LiMo Foundation and Linux Foundation announced the development of a new, open, device-independent software platform for the entire industry. The development of the new mobile Linux platform will be headed by the Linux Foundation, of which Ixonos is a limb.
This open-source joint venture has already gathered a large number of supporters. Ixonos and additional Nordic systems integrators Elektrobit, Nomovok, Cybercom and TDi have also publicly articulated their support for the Tizen initiative. The venture will offer significant new business opportunities for software companies that operate on the comprehensive market and have experience in MeeGo development projects.
“We strongly believe that there is a resounding need for a globally uniform open software platform. Tizen offers the industry and its players fascinating opportunities as Internet-enabled devices continue to proliferate and as the home-electronics, automotive and telecommunications industries join,” notes Kari Happonen, President and CEO of Ixonos.
The openness concept that drives the initiative makes faith in the mobile industry’s will to work collectively for a common goal, not just compete fiercely. The development of a unified platform brings collectively different players such as hardware manufacturers and telecommunications companies. Quicker development of the platform will bring major benefits to all parties involved. Hardware manufacturers will be able to take advantage of new flexibility as they innovate devices. At the same time, development costs and times will be substantially cut-rate. The joint application store and the uniform, standards-based programming foreign language will provide developers and service providers with a ready-for-use channel to consumers. End users will delight in advanced functionality in devices and services as well as a wide choice of applications for various devices and, above all, the uniform user experience these features enable.
Ixonos has strong expertise in mobile Linux platforms. “We have worked with mobile Linux since 2006: hundreds of our engineers have participated in the dozens of projects we have carried out collectively with several additional companies. We are a Linux Foundation limb and we intend to assume a very active role as Tizen developers and as enablers of a new level of openness,” says Antti Aumo, Vice President, Comprehensive Marketing.
Ixonos provides its customers with solutions for the design and development of connected device and multichannel online services and mobile applications, based on various operating systems, including mobile Linux. These services are connected by our ambition to provide end users with stuck-up mobile user experiences. When designing solutions and services that take advantage of wireless technology, Ixonos works with all major software platforms as well as on a platform-independent basis. Though, our development work is not based on technology but on innovating new solutions and making new, positive user experiences.
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Ixonos is a creative mobile solutions company. We renovate wireless technologies, software and solutions for connected devices and mobile services. Collectively with our corporate customers, we design products and services that let consumers delight in inspiring mobile experiences. We enhance the competitiveness of our customer companies by enabling stuck-up user experiences as well as quicker time-to-market for their devices and services. We have offices in Finland, China, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Fantastic Britain, Slovakia, South Korea and the U.S. Ixonos Plc is listed on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd. In 2010, the company’s turnover was 84.9 million euros and its operating profit was 5.3 million euros.
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An Open, Device-Independent Mobile Linux Platform in the …
ELCE will start off Oct. 26 with an address from LF Executive Director Jim Zemlin, who will “imagine a world without Linux.” This will be followed by a Kernel Developer Panel that features a star-studded cast including Linux creator Linus Torvalds (pictured at right), real-time Linux pioneer Thomas Gleixner, Intel’s Alan Cox, and IBM’s Paul McKenney.
The Oct. 27 keynotes, meanwhile, include Ixonos President of Comprehensive Solutions Antti Aumo discussing the “Cloud Phone,” which may or may not refer to his company’s announced support for the HTML5-focused Tizen spin-off of MeeGo and LiMo. Aumo’s address will be followed by Intel Chief Linux and Open Source Technologist Dirk Hondel (pictured at left) offering a “Reflection on 20 years of Linux.” Perhaps Dirk, too, can help the somewhat skeptical Linux community know how Tizen will do any better than MeeGo and LiMo.
After lunch on day two, Matt Jones (pictured at right), vice president of the Genivi Alliance open source In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) standards group and technical lead for the Genivi-based IVI system for the Jaguar Land Rover, will speak on “Linux for in-car infotainment.” Finally, Friday morning kicks off with LWN.net Editor Jon Corbet giving his usual Kernel Report.
Day two highlights include Surprise Lab’s Grant Likely giving a device tree status report, as well as ARM’s Lorenzo Pieralisi language on Linux potential management on multiprocessor systems. Texas Instruments’ David Anders and Luca Coelho will offer three different workshops on the PandaBoard open-platform development board (pictured at right), which is based on TI’s Cortex-A9-based, dual-core, 1GHz OMAP4430 system-on-chip (SoC).
The conference will be preceded on Oct. 25 with a choice of two full-day workshops. The first is a generic “Embedded Android workshop,” and the second is “Outside the box: an introduction to embedded Linux and hardware interfacing using the Snowball board.” The latter takes a hands-on look at working with Calao Systems’ open-platform Snowball development board (pictured at left), which showcases ST-Ericsson’s dual-core, 1GHz Cortex-A9 “Nova A9500″ SoC and Linaro’s Linux board support wrap.
