Abstract
As part of its Embedded Software 2008 Market Intelligence Service, Venture
Development Corporation (VDC) is pleased to release a study covering the
worldwide market for embedded/real-time and mobile application operating
systems employed in the development of embedded and mobile systems.
Specifically, our research efforts focused on the markets for:
- Real-time operating systems (RTOSs) as well as non real-time operating
systems used in embedded
- applications; and
- Mobile application operating systems used in embedded applications.
Research Highlights
VDC estimates that the embedded operating system market (as defined to include
other complementary runtime software and tools sold by operating system
suppliers) continues to experience year-over-year growth. In particular, the
mobile and wireless portion of this market has fueled recent market expansion
and VDC expects trends in this market segment to determine the course of new
revenue opportunity in future years.
Although the competitive landscape is very broad in terms of the number of
vendors within the market, the leading vendors represented the majority of
total revenue. In 2007, VDC estimates that the leading supplier within the
embedded/real-time and mobile application operating system market, represented
more than onethird of the market, and the top three vendors represented over
75% of total revenue.
Report Scope
Specifically, our analysis includes revenue from companies that offer the
above operating system types, in cases where operating system and bundled
product revenue represents a majority of product sales. Therefore, also
included within this analysis is other licensing revenue for operating
system suppliers that may also be derived from:
- Development tools;
- Middleware;
- Product maintenance and support; and
- Professional services fees.
Specifically excluded from this analysis is revenue from companies or business
units that that derive a majority of revenue from development tools,
professional services, and other product that are not specifically associated
with the sale of their own operating system. The report contains estimates for
2007 shipments of embedded Linux-related solutions and forecasts of shipments
through 2010.
Estimates and forecasts of shipments are segmented by:
- Product Category
- Industry
- Geographic Region
- Leading Vendor/Supplier (Based on 2007 estimates of shipments)
Report Statistics
- Market Forecast Coverage :2007-2010
- Total Pages :80
- Total Exhibits :32
- Phone Survey Sample :25
- Web Survey Sample :797
- Profiled Vendors and Products :13
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