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Wednesday, August 16, 2006
OSDL and LIPS cooperate for mobile Linux
This is as far as I understand not related to the previously announced New industry effort to firm up and enhance use of Linux for mobile phones, but rather a response to that, to strenghten OSDL (focusing on the core) and LIPS (focusing on an application platform). As the organisations don't compete this sounds like a good match.
This is definitely a good thing, but as some have pointed out earlier, mobile Linux is in an even worse situation than Java ME when it comes to inter-phone application compatibility. Obviously application development houses don't want to develop different versions for different phones, so we should not count out Symbian OS (read: Series 60) and Windows Mobile just yet, as they are much more consistent across phones.
Linux groups team on mobile standards | InfoWorld | News | 2006-08-14 | By Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service
This is definitely a good thing, but as some have pointed out earlier, mobile Linux is in an even worse situation than Java ME when it comes to inter-phone application compatibility. Obviously application development houses don't want to develop different versions for different phones, so we should not count out Symbian OS (read: Series 60) and Windows Mobile just yet, as they are much more consistent across phones.
Linux groups team on mobile standards | InfoWorld | News | 2006-08-14 | By Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service
