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Intel Acquires Mobile Linux Developer OpenedHand
nerdyH writes with the news that Intel has acquired OpenedHand, the developer of 'Poky Linux' and Matchbox. "The UK-based embedded Linux services team will join the Intel Open Source Technology Center, and will focus on Moblin development for mobile Internet devices and other mobile devices." The article notes that Intel's Moblin initiative had "failed to generate much interest" among developers when first announced earlier this year; this acquisition might help it catch the attention of more Linux developers.
Intel doesn't really need help. I don't recall them having problems.
It's interesting that Intel is venturing in the mobile world.
As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.
I wish Nokia would now make an Atom-based Maemo tablet... cross-compiling is a pain in the ass, especially with Nokia's "scratchbox" environment.
Anonymous for an obvious reason: I work for Intel.
I wonder if this means that Intel will start using it as the seed of a clearinghouse, instead of hiring their linux talent in-house.
It will be interesting to see if Intel takes the wide and different groups of programming teams, and just having this absorbed company make the generic apps, and in a way unify the applications corporate-wide (which is good for FOSS in general IMHO). Meanwhile, the individual groups can still make the drivers and chip-specific code, but will be smaller for each group (which saves money, but I know a lot of people who will very likely be downsized if that happens, and Intel has already been on a downsizing streak over the past few years).
I wasn't surprised to see Intel moving into the mobile and smaller-device space over recent years (Atom, Canmore, Moorestown). They almost own the CPU market, are making aggressive moves into GPUs, and this leaves them with not much else for growth in those two areas, so they are branching out from what I see (and what they've been pushing PR-wise)