Wind River chosen as foundation or LiMo

OHA member Wind River and embedded Linux gurus, have been chosen by LiMo to provide the foundation for their CIE (Common Integration Environment). From the Press Release:

To eliminate unnecessary complexity that increases time to market and development costs, OEMs and operators must reduce fragmentation in the Linux handset market. One means of reducing fragmentation is to standardize the mobile handset stack, from the Linux distribution to application framework and above – LiMo’s core objective. To integrate these stack components, a common integration environment is needed where all component providers’ contributions may be managed as both independent modules and an integrated whole.

By contributing key components of its commercial technology, Wind River provides a platform for LiMo to develop, test, certify, and deploy commercial products consisting of components provided by various members of the Foundation. The CIE will:

* Allow LiMo to easily manage components developed by the diverse engineering teams of its members, maintaining quality and ultimately time to market as different application and middleware components are contributed, assembled, and tested within the LiMo platform.
* Allow LiMo to easily update or exchange components, allowing OEMs and operators to differentiate their handsets while remaining within the LiMo standard.
* Allow LiMo to leverage a standard suite of components and applications for multiple projects, which is key to the LiMo mission of reducing time to market for Linux handsets while driving the greatest innovation and differentiation.
* Reduce debugging, test, and validation cycle time by minimizing challenges working with multiple versions of merged software.

This just further affirms that Wind River is the industry leader in Mobile Linux, and perhaps hints at some future LiMo-OHA love?