Abstract
As part of its Embedded Software 2008 Market Intelligence Service, Venture Development Corporation (VDC) is pleased to release a study covering the worldwide market for embedded/real-time and mobile application operating systems employed in the development of embedded and mobile systems.
Specifically, our research efforts focused on the markets for:
- Real-time operating systems (RTOSs) as well as non real-time operating systems used in embedded
- applications; and
- Mobile application operating systems used in embedded applications.
Research Highlights
VDC estimates that the embedded operating system market (as defined to include other complementary runtime software and tools sold by operating system suppliers) continues to experience year-over-year growth. In particular, the mobile and wireless portion of this market has fueled recent market expansion and VDC expects trends in this market segment to determine the course of new revenue opportunity in future years.
Although the competitive landscape is very broad in terms of the number of vendors within the market, the leading vendors represented the majority of total revenue. In 2007, VDC estimates that the leading supplier within the embedded/real-time and mobile application operating system market, represented more than onethird of the market, and the top three vendors represented over 75% of total revenue.
Report Scope
Specifically, our analysis includes revenue from companies that offer the above operating system types, in cases where operating system and bundled product revenue represents a majority of product sales. Therefore, also included within this analysis is other licensing revenue for operating system suppliers that may also be derived from:
- Development tools;
- Middleware;
- Product maintenance and support; and
- Professional services fees.
Specifically excluded from this analysis is revenue from companies or business units that that derive a majority of revenue from development tools, professional services, and other product that are not specifically associated with the sale of their own operating system. The report contains estimates for 2007 shipments of embedded Linux-related solutions and forecasts of shipments through 2010.
Estimates and forecasts of shipments are segmented by:
- Product Category
- Industry
- Geographic Region
- Leading Vendor/Supplier (Based on 2007 estimates of shipments)
Report Statistics
- Market Forecast Coverage :2007-2010
- Total Pages :80
- Total Exhibits :32
- Phone Survey Sample :25
- Web Survey Sample :797
- Profiled Vendors and Products :13
Table of Contents
I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- Market Overview
- Strategic Issues, Trends, and Market Drivers
- Market Estimates
- Competitive Landscape
- Summary and Observations
II. SCOPE AND METHODOLOGY
- SCOPE
- METHODOLOGY
- Definitions
- Industry Segmentation
- Product Category Segmentation
- Regional Segmentation
III. MARKET OVERVIEW
IV. STRATEGIC ISSUES, DRIVERS, AND TRENDS
- KEY MARKET TRENDS
- Growing Embedded System/Device Complexity and Increased Software Content
- Strong Influence of the Mobile Device Market
- Growing Focus on Enabling Device/System Services
- Core Operating System Technology Becoming Less of a Solution Differentiator
- Continued Erosion of Software Solution Partnerships and Remaining Diversity of Licensing Models
- Semiconductor and Board Suppliers Investing in Hardware Enablement through Software
- Systems Companies Actively Driving the Market
- Sustained Influence of Open Source Software
- Growing Number of Solutions Targeted at Virtualization and Multi-core Processing
- KEY MARKET DRIVERS
- KEY MARKET INHIBITORS
V. MARKET ESTIMATES AND FORECASTS
VI. COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS
- Microsoft
- Symbian
- Wind River Systems
- Green Hills Software
- Enea
- ACCESS
- MontaVista Software
- QNX Software Systems
- LynuxWorks
- Mentor Graphics
- Express Logic
- SYSGO AG
- Micrium
- eCosCentric
- Other Market Participants
- VII VENDOR PROFILES
- ACCESS CO, LTD.
- ENEA
- EXPRESS LOGIC, INC.
- GREEN HILLS SOFTWARE
- LYNUXWORKS, INC.
- MENTOR GRAPHICS
- MICRIUM
- MICROSOFT CORPORATION
- MONTAVISTA SOFTWARE
- QNX SOFTWARE SYSTEMS
- SYMBIAN
- SYSGO AG
- WIND RIVER SYSTEMS
- VIII SUMMARIES AND OBSERVATIONS
LIST OF EXHIBITS
IV. STRATEGIC ISSUES, DRIVERS, AND TRENDS
- IV-1 Expected Increase in the Total Lines of Software Code on the Next Project (Average of Respondents)
- IV-2 Current and Expected Device/System Software Requirements (Percent of Respondents)
- IV-3 Percent of Respondents Using an Open Source Operating System on the Previous, Current, and Next Project (Percent of Respondents)
- IV-4 Current and Expected Characterization of the Processor Design (Percent of Respondents)
- IV-5 Current and Expected Use of Operating System Virtualization on the Target Device/system (Percent of Respondents)
V. MARKET ESTIMATES AND FORECASTS
- V-1 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time and Mobile Application Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services Through 2010 (Millions of Dollars)
- V-2 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services Through 2010 (Millions of Dollars)
- V-3 Worldwide Shipments of Mobile Application Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services Through 2010 (Millions of Dollars)
- V-1a* Alternate Forecast of Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time and Mobile Application Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services Through 2010 (Millions of Dollars)
- V-3a* Alternate Forecast of Worldwide Shipments of Mobile Application Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services Through 2010 (Millions of Dollars)
- V-4 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time and Mobile Application Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Product Category (Percent of Dollars)
- V-5 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Product Category (Percent of Dollars)
- V-6 Worldwide Shipments of Mobile Application Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Product Category (Percent of Dollars)
- V-7 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time and Mobile Application Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Product Category; 2007-2010 (Millions of Dollars)
- V-8 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Product Category; 2007- 2010 (Millions of Dollars)
- V-9 Worldwide Shipments of Mobile Application Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Product Category; 2007- 2010 (Millions of Dollars)
- V-10 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time and Mobile Application Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Geographic Region (Percent of Dollars)
- V-11 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Geographic Region (Percent of Dollars)
- V-12 Worldwide Shipments of Mobile Application Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Geographic Region
- V-13 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time and Mobile Application Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Geographic Region; 2007-2010 (Millions of Dollars)
- V-14 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Geographic Region; 2007- 2010 (Millions of Dollars)
- V-15 Worldwide Shipments of Mobile Application Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Geographic Region; 2007- 2010 (Millions of Dollars)
- V-16 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time and Mobile Application Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Vertical Market (Percent of Dollars)
- V-17 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Vertical Market (Percent of Dollars)
- V-18 Worldwide Shipments of Mobile Application Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Vertical Market (Percent of Dollars)
- V-19 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time and Mobile Application Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Vertical Market; 2007-2010 (Millions of Dollars)
- V-20 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Vertical Market; 2007-2010 (Millions of Dollars)
- V-21 Worldwide Shipments of Mobile Application Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Vertical Market; 2007-2010 (Millions of Dollars)
VI. COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS
- VI-1 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time and Mobile Application Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Leading Vendors (Percent of Dollars)
- VI-2 Worldwide Shipments of Mobile Application Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Leading Vendors (Percent of Dollars)
- VI-3 Worldwide Shipments of Embedded/Real-Time Operating Systems, Bundle Products, and Related Services, Segmented by Leading Vendors (Percent of Dollars)
- VI-4 Target Operating System Used for the Previous Project, Current Project, and Planned for Next Project (Percent of Respondents)
