Verizon Wireless Chooses Linux Platform; Is Competition Getting Skewed Towards Linux?

The efforts being pursued by LiMo Foundation, developer of the Linux platform, received a boost with Verizon Wireless, the builder and operator of wireless network in the US, announcing its decision on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 to concentrate its future operating system on the Linux Platform. Verizon Wireless, thus becomes the first carrier in the US to patronize the Linux Platform after its rival, AT&T (T) decided to go with the Android platform being developed by Google.

The Basking Ridge, N.J. headquartered company said it expects the Linux platform to become the "preferred " software on its network. With this move, Verizon also hopes to help LiMo to unify the mobile industry around openness and Linux as the key enablers to lowering development costs. Verizon Wireless is planning to sell its first phones based on the LiMo operating system in 2009.

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