Enea Joins Linux Foundation

Enea, a global software and services company focused on solutions for communication-driven products, has joined the Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux. Officials with Enea (News - Alert) said that the company is joining The Linux Foundation to extend its participation in the Linux community.

"Linux is very often part of a multicore system solution in the communications industry," said Marcus Hjortsberg, vice president of marketing at Enea, in a statement.

"We are making Linux part of our company strategy and look to leverage the membership in Linux Foundation (News - Alert) to better support our customers and the multicore platforms solutions we are developing," said Hjortsberg.

“Enea has a rich history of technical innovation and we're looking forward to their contributions to The Linux Foundation," said Amanda McPherson, vice president of marketing and developer programs of the Linux Foundation.

The Linux Foundation provides a neutral forum in which developers, vendors and Linux users can practice these principles and advance Linux for the future of computing.

TMCnet in October reported that Enea has launched the Enea M2M Competence Center in Linköping, Sweden. Officials with Enea said that the M2M Competence Center will offer a full range of hardware and software development consulting solutions, training and support.

In addition, Enea provides a flexible M2M development platform that can be customized to meet application requirements. According to industry experts, M2M communication is a rapidly emerging application segment in which device nodes capture data or information from sensors, meters or other components, which is then transmitted over fixed or wireless networks to a computer system.

Industry experts also note that M2M communication streamlines and accelerates business processes, lowers costs and improves organizational efficiencies. While M2M is applicable to many markets it has seen the widest adoption in building and industrial automation, supply chain management, monitoring and security and remote payment systems.

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