MeeGo Project Wins More Support
By Doug Caverly
Staff Writer
Article Date: 2010-04-14
The MeeGo Project, which aims to make a single Linux-based, open source software platform out of separate Intel and Nokia projects, has gained a whole lot of supporters. A whopping 27, in fact, and there are some rather important companies among them.
Here's an alphabetical list of all the organizations that are now onboard: Acer, Amino, Asianux, Asus, BMW Group, Collabora, Ltd., CS2C, DeviceVM, EA Mobile, Gameloft, Hancom, Linpus, Maemo Community Council, Mandriva, Metasys, Miracle, MontaVista Software, Novell, PixArt, Red Flag, ST-Ericsson, Tencent, TurboLinux, VietSoftware, Wind River, WTEC, and Xandros.
Neat, right? At least four of those entities might even qualify as household names, so long as you're talking about a household with a computer or two in it.
Anyway, Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation, stated in response to the stampede, "The MeeGo project is being met with enthusiastic support from companies and developers who want to seize the market opportunity that exists for the next-generation of computing devices. By working with a common set of tools and open technologies for building these devices, MeeGo developers will be able to easily reach the biggest addressable market available."
And the project should probably move forward tomorrow and Thursday (April 15th and 16th), since that's when MeeGo project meetings are scheduled to take place at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit.
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