Linux-based consumer products drive Wind River earnings
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| Wind River yesterday announced solid 3Q earnings, touting wins in embedded
| Linux consumer electronics. In its earnings call yesterday, the Alameda,
| Calif.-based embedded Linux OS and tools vendor pointed to the growth in
| Linux-based mobile handsets and telematics as key drivers of the company's
| growth.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3854518563.html
>From the press release that was posted earlier
EMF changes tune, hails embedded Linux
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| Embedded Market Forecasters has issued a report claiming that embedded Linux
| is just as dependable as other real-time operating systems (RTOSes). The
| independently funded report appears to recant EMF's controversial
| Microsoft-funded report in 2003 that claimed that embedded Windows OSes were
| far faster and cheaper than embedded Linux.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9372729455.html
"Independently funded," it says. Redmond doesn't like that. It can't handle the
truth.
Related:
Wind River Joins LiMo Foundation, Reinforces Commitment to Reduce Complexity of
Linux for Mobile Handsets
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| Wind River becomes the first commercial Linux provider to join the open
| source mobile platform consortium.
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http://www.openpr.com/news/27920/Wind-River-Joins-LiMo-Foundation-Reinforces-Commitment-to-Reduce-Complexity-of-Linux-for-Mobile-Handsets.html
Wind River is on the block: IBM is lead buyer
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| Wind River, a leader in real-time and embedded Linux is up for sale. Sources
| close to the deal say IBM is the buyer.
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http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2007/08/wind_river_is_o.php
Wind River Unveils New Commercial Grade Linux Platforms
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| This release of Wind River Linux will be based on the 2.6.21 Linux kernel. In
| addition to the advancements made in the 2.6.21 kernel, Wind River will
| provide users with 64-bit application support, including tools for both
| kernel and user space debugging across all supported architectures.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/embedded/12114/wind-river-unveils-new-commercial-grade-linux-platforms
http://tinyurl.com/2qks99
Wind River Enhances Lab Diagnostics 2.1 And Delivers Innovative Automated Test
Capability
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| Building embedded devices with Linux often means working with a vast code
| base, which can introduce a level of uncertainty into the development
| process. With the updated version of Lab Diagnostics, Linux developers will
| be able to resolve some of the risk and uncertainty.
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http://www.laboratorynetwork.com/content/news/article.asp?docid=%7B500E49D6-96DD-482A-9232-CFE5187CF532%7D&VNETCOOKIE=NO
Wind River acquires patented real-time Linux technology
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| Wind River, one of the world's top embedded software providers, has
| acquired a real-time Linux distribution and patented hard-real-time
| technology from FSMLabs Inc.
|
| [...]
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| In response to the growing popularity of embedded Linux, the company
| several years ago began transitioning to Linux as its second major
| embedded OS platform, alongside VxWorks, but positioned it as a
| solution for non-, or at most "soft-real-time," timing constraints,
| with VxWorks recommended for customers requiring hard-real-time.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2333482316.html
Sun's Niagara chip breaks like the Wind River
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| Wind River this week lent a helping hand to one of Sun Microsystems'
| more interesting processor efforts. The software maker announced that
| its telco hardened version of Linux will be tuned for Sun's UltraSPARC
| T1 processor.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/02/sun_windriver/
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