Can Nokia and Intel Conquer the Embedded Devices World With MeeGo OS?

Intel and Nokia have announced what seems to be an extremely odd partnership: They're melding Intel's Moblin mobile device OS with Nokia's Maemo into a new Linux affair called MeeGo. Odd? Yes. But it might just work.

The companies' joint press release to announce the news starts out, with no messing around, by drawing out the goals of the new venture--and they're impressive: MeeGo, a "Linux-based software platform" will support "multiple hardware architectures across the broadest range of...