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Wind River Completes Embedded Linux Metamorphosis
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."
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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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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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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