Wind River announced that the LiMo Foundation has selected Wind River’s commercial Linux technology as the foundation for its Common Integration Environment (CIE). The CIE solution, including Wind River’s build and configuration system with layers, mobile-optimized kernel distribution, and tool chain provides the fundamental building blocks that will help LiMo members fulfil the Foundation’s goal of reducing fragmentation in the Linux mobile handset market.

To eliminate unnecessary complexity it is necessary to reduce fragmentation in the Linux handset market. One means is to standardize the mobile handset stack. 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.