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Original Post: J2ME drives Linux adoption for embedded devices
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There is a common belief nowadays, and especially expressed by J2EE professionals, that the rise of Linux on the server has been a boon to the continued expansion of J2EE. Whether or not this is true is open to debate, but the adoption of Linux in high end enterprise environments is also helped by the availability of robust and scalable J2EE application servers. For better or for worse, PHP and its ilk are usually of no help in this case.
The roles are reversed in the small devices environment.
It seems that in this area, the overwhelming popularity of J2ME has driven the adoption of Linux for handsets and PDAs. Network operators are interested in Linux, but mainly as an inexpensive way to deliver applications written in Java.
This partnership between two forces is an unlikely one at first glance. On the one hand, Linux is truly open source, while Java is proprietary to Sun. But on the other hand, there are tons of open source implementations, tools, and java software in the market. Java is also strongly aligned and supported by open source organizations, including Apache, which is bringing out its own open source J2EE application server.
In the end, the debate on whether the two are a good fit may be a moot point. The market will decide one way or the other.
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