VxWorks is just too good
VxWorks is just too good
Posted Dec 2, 2005 19:23 UTC (Fri) by larryr (guest, #4030)In reply to: VxWorks is just too good by brouhaha
Parent article: LinkSys courts Linux hackers with WRT54GL (LinuxDevices)
Linksys doesn't have to do the rewriting of the software, so their cost to switch is almost nothing. The software is provided by the ODM that makes the box for Linksys, or (more likely) by the vendor of the wireless chipset/SOC.
So with Linux or VxWorks the amortized development/NRE cost is roughly the same (negligible).
Larry