07 August 2007

Industry Linux Initiative Sees Membership Surge

The LiMo Foundation, a global industry initiative on mobile Linux, has seen a early membership growth as its ecosystem begins to take shape.

The not-for-profit LiMo Foundation has attracted broad industry engagement. Aplix, Celunite, LG Electronics, McAfee and Wind River have joined as Core members and will participate on the LiMo Foundation Board. ARM, Broadcom, Ericsson, Innopath, KTF, MontaVista Software and NXP B.V. have joined as Associate members.

Founder members Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics, and Vodafone announced the formation of the LiMo Foundation in January 2007. Its goal is to create the world’s first globally competitive, Linux-based software platform for mobile devices.

The LiMo Foundation said it is blending community-based development benefits of transparency, innovation and scalability with the best development practices from the mobile community worldwide to create an innovative new business model with widespread adoption.

The Foundation is open to device manufacturers, operators, chip set manufacturers, independent software vendors, integrators and third party developers. Foundation members will be involved in building an active ecosystem and will have the opportunity to influence the evolution of the platform.

The Foundation expects to see the first handsets supporting the LiMo platform to reach market in the first half of 2008.
For more information on the LiMo Foundation go to: http://www.limofoundation.org.