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Wind River Completes Embedded Linux Metamorphosis

Posted by Hemos on from the going-to-the-tiny dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Embedded software powerhouse Wind River's metamorphosis into an embedded Linux vendor appears to be complete. The company will announce today that it is shipping a pre-release version of its first embedded Linux distribution, and that it has already delivered 1,000 "developer seats" for the Carrier Grade Linux 2.0 compliant software."

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  1. Smart Move by blueZhift · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think Wind River is making a smart move. They could have easily dug their heels in and raged against the Linux tide. Instead they're going with the flow and building to take advantage of new opportunities and serving their customers' needs. Good show!

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  2. Considering they did the Mars Rover by kbahey · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Considering that it is the same company that did the Mars Rover software, this is a big thing.

    For a company with such a high profile product to adopt Linux is only a good thing.

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  3. Pure ignorance: Carrier grade benifits? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    In the next few months, if we win the contract, I'll be responsible for tweaking an embedded telcom system. While I have no problems with that, I'd like to make sure that I use the right tools for the job.

    At what point would Wind River's tools become helpful beyond the normal tweaking and tuning? (Ex: changing buffer or table sizes, removing parts of the kernel that aren't necessary, ...)

    I realize that much of this would be project-specifc, though any general tips would be helpful.

  4. Re:4 words by Lumpy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    actually a little more than that needs to be said.

    if they have a solid RT linux product for their embedded offerings then they might be able to tie things up and run with it. If it's a general purpose embedded linux then they just wasted a HUGE amount of time.

    A slightly good linux person with 5 days of time and a copy of building embedded linux systems can throw down a good fast small embedded linux distro that will make ANYTHING that a commercial distro look silly and horribly overpriced.

    We looked at embedded linux distros 4 years ago here and settled on a roll your own.

    we have a better product that we KNOW works for us, is easily customized and is certianly much smaller than anything we could buy.

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  5. Re:WIND stock price rebound ... by Y2 · · Score: 2, Interesting
    The Market thinks they are turning it around.

    With a trailing P/E of 276, the market must think WindRiver has a philosopher's stone up its sleeve! Even darling GOOG is only half that pricey.

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  6. And it only took... by TheRealMadScientist · · Score: 1, Interesting

    ...suing the shit out of Green Hills Software http://www.ghs.com/news/20050118_WRS.html in express violation of a business contract to make this new product even remotely viable in the marketplace. Kudos to you...mini-SCO!

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  7. Re:Nasa wont switch to Linux by fabu10u$ · · Score: 2, Interesting
    a single failure costs you hundreds of millions and maybe several lives
    Case in point, last I heard they're not even on VxWorks on the shuttle. I think they're still on IBM 360's, at least for the major systems.
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  8. Re:Even WinCE is better... by Omega+Blue · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I don't know what you are talking about.

    The first two articles compared RH7.3 with W2K Advanced Server and Windows XP, no WinCE was involved. The third article does not compare Linux with anything else.

    I must say RH7.3 does admirably well, seeing that it was compared with Microsoft's high-end products, and it's not an optimised kernel like W2K AS.