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Linux is making sufficient inroads into the embedded systems market to send vendors scrambling. The latest example was Wind River Systems, which experts say has 30 percent of the market for the tiny operating systems that run millions of devices ranging from cellular phones to airplane navigation gear.
The Alameda, Calif., vendor this week said it extended its professional services division to help customers deploy Linux, either alone or with the company's own competing operating system, VxWorks. The announcement came only a week after Wind River said it had joined two prominent open-source groups, which analysts interpreted as, "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em."
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