Embedded Software Market Still Growing

An anonymous reader writes "Despite the current gloomy economy, market analyst firm VDC projects that the embedded software OS and tools market will grow steadily over the next five years, with segment growth rates ranging from 9.5 to 24% CAGR. This news item and white paper at LinuxDevices.com presents VDC's estimates of 2007 revenue and growth rates for the specific embedded software market segments tracked by VDC, along with a number of other interesting observations from VDC's study."

Duh

[TheCovenant]

Duh. Unless we are all going to start using tube based computers again this is pretty obvious.

No mention of Java?!

[psyconaut]

Surprised there were no stats for embedded Java growth....with the advent of J2ME (and MIDP and CLDC specs), there's lots going on in the embedded Java space...including lots of new protoboards, Java "CPUs", and Java MCU modules.

Re:No mention of Java?!

[psyconaut]

If Java is irrelavent for embedded systems....them you might want to mention that to Sun so they can stop producing J2ME :-p (Not least the whole slew of vendors who provide development tools and systems, or the crop of products that are based on embedded Java like RIM's Blackberry!).

-psy