I worked at a major hardware company where all hardware diagnostics was written on the Win98 platform. Therefore, all OEM partners were using Win98 for their diagnostics platform as well in order to run diagnostics for this particular hardware. For a long time there was motivation to move the diagnostics platform from Win98 over to Linux but it was always put on the backburner do to higher prority tasks and not enough resources. The expiring of the Win98 license pushed the decision over the edge and Linux is now the primary development platform for diagnostics at this company, along with all of its OEM partners. I think its plausible that this isn't the only case of this.
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I worked at a major hardware company where all hardware diagnostics was written on the Win98 platform. Therefore, all OEM partners were using Win98 for their diagnostics platform as well in order to run diagnostics for this particular hardware. For a long time there was motivation to move the diagnostics platform from Win98 over to Linux but it was always put on the backburner do to higher prority tasks and not enough resources. The expiring of the Win98 license pushed the decision over the edge and Linux is now the primary development platform for diagnostics at this company, along with all of its OEM partners. I think its plausible that this isn't the only case of this.