I was an Atlanta based event (StartupRiot.com, other coverage) yesterday and I was asked a few times about what MontaVista did. I mentioned that we helped our customers to get the most out of open source as they build their commercial devices.

Invariably the first comment I got was: “Oh… embedded software. So that’s doing Linux in really small systems, right?”

Well… sometimes. We’ve got many customers who are trying to build very small products that utilize a minimal amount of flash. We’ve also got customers who build huge systems that use multicore chips with 16 processors and many gigabytes of RAM.

That’s the great thing about Linux… it is scalable such that it can be adapted to reach the sweet spot on most designs without undue effort. It may not be appropriate for the extremes but it covers the great swath of everything else.

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