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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Wind River updates embedded Linux suite
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Wind River has updated its commercial embedded Linux distribution, along
>| with three vertical-market "Platforms" based on it. Many of the new
>| features in Wind River Linux 1.3 target telecommunications, traditionally
>| an area of Wind River strength. The company additionally updated its
>| Eclipse-based development tools, and contributed some 300,000 lines of
>| code to the open-source Eclipse project.
> `----
>
> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2640810809.html
>
> This relates to the announcement that Boeing will use Linux.
Yeah - I read through from the previous article. It's quite significant
in many respects, although Wind River have been targeting the telco
world for a couple of years now with CGLinux. The world-changing thing
about CGLinux on eg., ATCA (or similar standard chasses) is that pretty
much everything which used to have to be on specialist high-i/o hardware
with real-time OSes can now be one using CGLinux on ATCA.
Solving the middleware issues is still a problem, and it's truly not
clear which is the best way to go, yet. The IMS people want to build a
bunch of traditional stovepipes connected with yet another set of
protocols; although you /could/ do IMS with open platforms and stacks,
albeit you'd need to implement some protocols not currently available in
open systems.
What's causing the headaches here is that there's an enormous investment
going into DSLAM upgrades, and a lot of speculative investment going
into eg., IPTV, just at the point where even Vodafone are giving up on
the 3G promise, as it just doesn't really provide what customers are
willing to pay for, at least, not at this stage.
The critical question is finding what apps customers /will/ pay for, and
how to distribute them between the network and the devices (don't tell
Mr Quark - he'll claim you can just look this up on a website ;-) Doh!
We are at the most important crossroads since the privatisation of
telcos began; as is so often the case, few people are able to recognise
it... but those who make the right choices stand to do very well, I
think.
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