Z-Wave?

[sethg-Dp9fwfP21SfQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org (Seth Gordon)]

On 06/12/2011 10:33 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> Mark Woodward wrote:
>> ...unless there is a REALLY specific need, Windows is a very poor
>> platform for this type of application.
> 
> Yes, considering that if you went with Linux you might be able to get by
> with a $30 router platform. In fact, there are commercial home
> automation products that do exactly that:
> 
> http://www.micasaverde.com/

I see that this company produces home-automation products using Z-Wave.
 Is Z-Wave a worthy contender for Linux geeks looking to upgrade from X10?

(From some googling around, it seems that ZigBee doesn?t have as many
hardware vendors signing on, and Linux support for Insteon is not very
good.)