Motorola has announced its investment in VirtualLogix - a company that specialises in virtualising mobile operating systems.
Virtualisation allows entire operating systems to run on virtual machines. This can allow you to run multiple operating systems at once, but can also be used to allow several different operating systems to run on the same hardware, without having to rewrite them.
With the coming of Android, the mobile OS wars look set to begin in earnest, so this could be a really smart move for Motorola.
By going down the virtualisation route, Motorola can keep its options open, potentially licensing several operating systems or even developing their own. What could emerge is something like what we have with PCs - you can buy a commodity bit of hardware, and have the choice of running Windows, Linux or one of the minority platforms like BSD or SymphonyOS.
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