IoT & Embedded Operating Systems

by Rob Shapiro, with Steve Hoffenberg, and Chris Rommel, May 2020

Inside This Report
As traditional, general-purpose licensed operating systems (OSs) revenue faces increasing pressure from free competition, VDC recommends IoT & embedded operating system vendors continue to shift their focus into safety-critical markets. The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic is forcing vendors to pause and reevaluate their go-to-market plans as they attempt to navigate a rapidly changing market.

Vendors Listed in this Report
Amazon, Arm, BlackBerry QNX, Canonical, Concurrent Real-Time, Enea, eSOL, ETAS (Bosch), Express Logic (Microsoft), Google, Green Hills Software, Lineo Solutions, Lynx Software, Mentor Graphics (Siemens), Micrium (Silicon Labs), Microsoft, MontaVista Software, Red Hat, SEGGER, SUSE (Micro Focus), SYSGO (Thales Group), Timesys, Wind River, WITTENSTEIN H.I.S.