I was starting to think that the LiMo operating system was dead and gone. With all the hoopla this year over the iPhone, Android and even Palm’s webOS, LiMo and its supporting mobile Linux LiMo Foundation haven’t been able to cut through the noise. But LiMo is apparently live and well.
Vodafone, one of the founding members of the LiMo Foundation and the largest wireless carrier in the world by revenue, has purchased American software firm Azingo to develop applications based on the LiMo platform.
“We are excited to partner with Azingo to develop cutting edge
applications for our mobile phones based on the LiMo platform,” said
Guido Arnone, Director of Terminals Technology at Vodafone, in a statement.
This confirms that LiMo could still become a mobile operating system to reckon with though I have my doubts, especially with Android being a competing Linux-based OS itself.
Open source Linux is extremely popular as a desktop operating system, but has struggled to penetrate the mobile market. Android seems to be its best shot in mobile right now, and while it had a majority share of the netbook market at the beginning of 2008, Microsoft Windows owned 80 percent of the market by year-end.
via reuters
