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Red Hat Dissolves eCos Team, Changes Embedded Strategy

Posted by chrisd on from the red-hat-goes-well-with-orange-socks dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "This article at LinuxDevices.com, which includes an Interview with Red Hat CTO Michael Tiemann, probes Red Hat's dissolution of its eCos project team and the reasoning behind Red Hat's newly adjusted embedded linux strategy. Tiemann says his company is still in the embedded business, but considers embedded to be an aspect of a broader 'platform OS' strategy."

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  1. GOATSE IS BACK!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    www.goatse.da.ru

  2. Great news for Linux! by PhysicsGenius · · Score: -1, Troll
    My organization uses embedded Linux[1] and have found RedHat's offering to be of the first water. High uptimes, awesome flexibility, great documentation and industry-standard support have made it Number One in our book. Of course, while it is certainly the best embedded OS out there, it still has a ways to go before it is ideal. For instance, I with embedded Linux a better interface than the CLI and there's always the specter of fragmentation to deal with. Still, on the whole I think Tiemann has played well with the mediocre hand that Linus dealth him and I salute him for it.

    [1]We have it running on our particle accelerator and capturing data that can be pulled up, real time, on the member scientists browsers either in the office or in the field.

  3. I like Red Hat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Red Hat is fun. I think that everybody should use Red Hat. It is the best.

  4. Re:First Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    www.goatse.da.ru

  5. Red Hat Dissolves... by Kevin+DeGraaf · · Score: 0, Troll

    Darn it! I read the first three words, got exited, and then was crushed with disappointment to see "eCos Team" (whatever the hell that is) afterward.

    Down with Red Hat!

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    We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked.