Wind River's Linux transformation (ZDNet)

Posted May 12, 2005 18:06 UTC (Thu) by QuisUtDeus (guest, #14854)
Parent article: Wind River's Linux transformation (ZDNet)

So, "viewing Linux as incremental to our business" indicates that "We've turned 180 degrees"?

Does that mean that before they viewed it as decremental to their business?

incremental change

Posted May 12, 2005 19:31 UTC (Thu) by ccyoung (guest, #16340) [Link]

obviously a typo - probably meant to say something like instrumental

Wind River's Linux transformation (ZDNet)

Posted May 12, 2005 19:48 UTC (Thu) by josh_stern (guest, #4868) [Link]

>Does that mean that before they viewed it as decremental to their business?

I think it does. As the article describes, Wind River has their own proprietary OS, VxWorks, and they viewed Linux as a competitor to that in the embedded space. Apparently they are doing okay selling, to some customers, a Linux distribution and tools/custom work for that instead of VxWorks itself.

Wind River's Linux transformation (ZDNet)

Posted May 12, 2005 21:13 UTC (Thu) by sandy_pond (guest, #9734) [Link]

These guys are the Microsoft of the embedded world. I still don't trust them.

Wind River's Linux transformation (ZDNet)

Posted May 12, 2005 22:12 UTC (Thu) by danieldk (subscriber, #27876) [Link]

Yes. They practically dumped Slackware Linux after acquiring BSDi. They were only interested in BSDi code.

Wind River's Linux transformation (ZDNet)

Posted May 13, 2005 2:28 UTC (Fri) by njhurst (guest, #6022) [Link]

I think they found it excremental to their business.