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Embedded Software Market Still Growing

Posted by timothy on from the regardless dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Despite the current gloomy economy, market analyst firm VDC projects that the embedded software OS and tools market will grow steadily over the next five years, with segment growth rates ranging from 9.5 to 24% CAGR. This news item and white paper at LinuxDevices.com presents VDC's estimates of 2007 revenue and growth rates for the specific embedded software market segments tracked by VDC, along with a number of other interesting observations from VDC's study."

12 comments

  1. Duh by TheCovenant · · Score: 1

    Duh. Unless we are all going to start using tube based computers again this is pretty obvious.

    --
    cp -R /* /dev/null
    1. Re:Duh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The embedded industry usually means software and hardware for small devices, not full-blown PCs. This includes cell phones, set top boxes, the chip in your car, etc.

  2. No mention of Java?! by psyconaut · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Surprised there were no stats for embedded Java growth....with the advent of J2ME (and MIDP and CLDC specs), there's lots going on in the embedded Java space...including lots of new protoboards, Java "CPUs", and Java MCU modules.

    1. Re:No mention of Java?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      same reason they didn't mention *BSD. It's irrelevant.

    2. Re:No mention of Java?! by psyconaut · · Score: 1

      If Java is irrelavent for embedded systems....them you might want to mention that to Sun so they can stop producing J2ME :-p (Not least the whole slew of vendors who provide development tools and systems, or the crop of products that are based on embedded Java like RIM's Blackberry!).

      -psy

  3. Quick quiz... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    How many of you know what the volatile keyword is for?

    heh heh

    1. Re:Quick quiz... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I do.

    2. Re:Quick quiz... by FPCat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      How many people have connected an ICE box to a JTAG port? Some days, that makes me volatile!