Does Linux really spell the end of proprietary embedded operating systems? Lineo CEO Bryan Sparks certainly thinks so — and he’s doing everything he can to make it happen.
Does Linux really spell the end of proprietary embedded operating systems? Lineo CEO Bryan Sparks certainly thinks so — and he’s doing everything he can to make it happen.
When all is said and done, Linux may have the greatest impact where it is the hardest to see — in the phones and PDAs and routers that, more and more, are being powered by the Penguin. One of the people at the forefront of the embedded Linux phenomenon is Bryan Sparks, CEO of Lindon, UT-based Lineo. After his Linux company Caldera bought DR-DOS from Novell in 1996, Sparks began building a new line of business selling software and services to the embedded market. Before long, Sparks realized that it was Linux and not DR-DOS that held the most potential. Two years later, the embedded business was spun off from Caldera, and Lineo was born. Lineo filed for an IPO in the fall of 2000. Due to unfortunate market conditions, they were forced to call it off in January 2001. Despite this, when Sparks recently sat down to dinner with Linux Magazine’s Publisher Adam Goodman and Contributing Editor Robert McMillan, he was highly optimistic about the future of both embedded Linux and his own company.
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