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Development platforms and tools often take years to mature and gain general adoption and approval. Spotting these diamonds in the rough, though, can be very easy or incredibly difficult.
This year, the often-hyped open-source Android platform is the obvious choice for best software development. While it hasn't been around long, its use in areas outside its original arena mark it as a significant platform for embedded developers. On the other end of the spectrum, there's the Everyware platform from hardware company Eurotech. Everyware is built on a number of open-source systems, so it isn't proprietary.
EMBEDDED ANDROID
Google started the open-source Android project as part of the Open Handset Alliance with an eye toward smart phones (Fig. 1). But Android...