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Wind River & Redhat
Wind River is working
with Red Hat to build an embedded platform based on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux. (Thanks to Esben Nielsen)
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Wind River & Redhat Posted Feb 24, 2004 19:32 UTC (Tue) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742) [Link] It seems to me that now more or less every IT company except MS pusheslinux, now even Windriver, one which sells an OS itself. Alex
Wind River & Redhat Posted Feb 24, 2004 19:52 UTC (Tue) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link] Wind River is a strange case. Some years ago they acquired BSDi, who had not long earlier acquired Walnut Creek, distributors of Slackware and FreeBSD and employers of several developers of both. So Wind River effectively had its fingers in three new OS's at once: BSD/OS, FreeBSD, Slackware. They decided they didn't want Slackware and let those developers go. A year or two later it was clear they didn't want FreeBSD either, and they let them go too. They still list BSD/OS among their products but it's clear they're not too keen on it. And now they want to mess with Red Hat? Well, it's between them and RH, but I don't expect any great contributions to free software from them.
Wind River & Redhat Posted Feb 24, 2004 20:21 UTC (Tue) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020) [Link] I don't expect ANY contributions to free software from Wind River. They are just running scared. Linux is eating away at the market for their pride and joy (vxWorks). Rightly so, while vxWorks is a decent RTOS (if a bit bloated), its network stack and file system support is no where near Linux in terms of performance. So, they attempt to get into the Linux game. I think they'll discover that they have very little to contribute there.
Wind River & Redhat Posted Feb 24, 2004 21:21 UTC (Tue) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742) [Link] Well, but now they can ship a complete solution, a high-quality rtostogether with a well-integrated development platform. Last week I visited the "embedded world" fair in Nuernberg, and in more than 1/2 of *all* booths there was also a box running linux. Except the guys who want to sell their own OS (MS, QNX and some smaller shops). It really gave me the impression that linux has finally really arrived. Alex
Wind River & Redhat Posted May 24, 2004 21:17 UTC (Mon) by nycresearch (guest, #21804) [Link] I am a stock analyst following Wind River and would like to learn more about what you think of Wind River's Linux effort. Please email me at tired_of_teaneck@yahoo.com if you would be willing to chat. thanks very much.
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