Wind River Announces It Likes Linux After All

onecrazyfoo writes "Wind River is going to start supporting Linux in the embedded market. Pretty big news from the largest company in the embedded tools market. What makes it even more interesting is the fact that they have been very anti-Linux and outspoken about it in the past. You can read more about their announcement at LinuxDevices.com." I'm guessing this has come about because of recent changes in the company.

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For those who don't RTFA....

[wo1verin3]

Found a link off the main article showcasing products embedded with Linux and actually shipping.

Not surprised

[gnalre]

Considering the prices for a vxworks seat I am not surprised. I am sure embedded linux at the low end has been killing them for a couple of years now.
They also changed there strategy and there "crown jewels". The vxworks source code suddenly became cheaper.

However there is a lot more to embedded development than just buying a package and putting it on. The things vxworks does do well is it provide a very configurable hardware layer which makes moving to new hardware relatively easy. Also some of there visulation tools such as windview are very good(Oh I wish there was something similar for windows) which allows you to sort out bottle necks.

However you do pay through the nose for this (and there new licensing model has made it very expensive) and for cheap targets it is just not economic.