For example the fact that the HW as well as the SW has been entirely developed from scratch by the same startup which is competing in a market where usually the software is deployed on a workstation as a custom windows executable connected to SQLServer backend and clumsy communicating with the HW through USB or, worse COMM ports.

RTLS companies are very conservative with technology. We are trying to modify the trend and use something a little cooler

It does, the latest version 4.X has a linux export option.