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Wind River Adds Embedded Linux Support
News Wind River Systems, the largest provider of software for embedded devices, has added its first official support for the Linux operating system, underscoring the momentum of Linux in devices outside the PC realm.
[October 3, 2003, 11:00]
Wind River Joins Open-source Groups
News Wind River Systems, an operating system specialist that decided to embrace Linux rather than fight it, plans to announce Monday it has joined two prominent open-source groups. Joining the groups, which each work on software that directly competes...
[December 1, 2003, 10:45]
Wind River Acquires BSD's Unix
News In a major upheaval in the open-source software market, Wind River Systems has acquired Berkeley Software Design's version of Unix, merging the realms of proprietary and freely shared software. But Wind River likes the BSDi software as much for its...
[April 5, 2001, 8:23]
Why Microsoft Windows XP Embedded And Not Wind River?
White Papers Selecting an OS platform is one of the most fundamental decisions an embedded developer must make for any given device design. Whether you are considering migrating from a proprietary to commercial platform, or from one commercial platform to...
[August 6, 2007, 0:00]
Linux To Power US Navy Aircraft
News Boeing has awarded Wind River Systems a contract to embed its version of Linux into a new military aircraft, the company plans to announce Monday along with a new batch of products built around the open source operating system.
[July 31, 2006, 9:45]
Icebox Switched To Microsoft Windows CE .NET When Building The Latest Version Of Its Icebox Kitchen Internet Appliance
White Papers Icebox, LLC switched to Microsoft Windows CE .NET from Wind River VxWorks and OpenTV Device Mosaic when building the latest version of its Icebox kitchen Internet appliance. Windows CE .NET offers powerful development tools that enabled Icebox to...
[November 5, 2003, 23:00]
Linux Heads For Embedded Status
News Wind River, a major force in software embedded in devices such as cellphones or factory robots, has signed a deal with leading Linux seller Red Hat to jointly develop a version of the open-source software, the companies plan to announce on Monday.
[February 23, 2004, 7:25]
Embedded Linux Firms Spar Over Tools
News The rivalry between Wind River Systems and MontaVista Software warmed up this week in the market for Linux in embedded-computing devices such as mobile phones and network equipment. At Wind River's user conference on Monday, the company announced...
[May 25, 2005, 9:10]
The Rise And Rise Of Embedded Linux
News In the past two years, Wind River Systems got over its scorn for Linux. So if the customers don't want to hand control to Microsoft, why would they want to do that with Wind River? Wind River specialises in embedded software used in computing...
[April 8, 2005, 11:30]
Embedded Linux Alive And Kicking
News The top dog is Wind River Systems with its VxWorks and pSOS products, but it has been weakened by reduced design spending on the part of its telecommunications customers and has had to cut staff. And a Wind River dalliance with an open-source...
[January 24, 2002, 8:52]
ARM Backs Linux For Consumer Devices
News The software is starting to encroach into the markets held by existing embedded-computing companies such as Wind River Systems, Green Hills Software, and on the turf of newcomers such as Microsoft, which are trying to make their own entrance.
[October 27, 2003, 16:30]
MS Unveils Whistler Embedded Beta
News IDC analyst Al Gillen noted that Windows CE competes head-to-head with other "hard-core" embedded operating systems, such as Wind River Systems' VxWorks and embedded versions of Linux, more than Windows NT Embedded or Whistler Embedded does.
[December 19, 2000, 8:57]
Novell Plans Launch Of Snap-response Linux
News Nevertheless, Wind River and others such as MontaVista Software have been working to give Linux a snappy response. Wind River, Concurrent and LynuxWorks all have embraced Linux despite having competing proprietary products of their own.
[September 21, 2006, 8:55]
The Right To Bear Software For Warfare
Blog This particular mast will be powered by Wind River’s VxWorks mission-critical real-time operating system (RTOS) - suddenly the world “real” in RTOS actually has that much more impact this way doesn’t it?
[May 1, 2008, 1:25]
Google To Unveil 'Android' Mobile-phone Software
News A Wind River representative declined to comment on Friday on any Google partnership. Wind River Systems, a company that specialises in tailoring Linux for embedded devices such as network equipment and mobile phones, is likely to be a key part of...
[November 5, 2007, 7:49]
Intel Drives In-car Computer Effort
News The chipmaker announced Wednesday that it has forged relationships with Microsoft, QNX Software Systems, Wind River Systems, IBM, Fonix and Lernout & Hauspie to commercialise in-car computers. Intel enlisted Microsoft for its Windows CE operating...
[April 12, 2001, 8:32]
MontaVista Reaches Hard Real-time Goal
News Real-time operating systems such as Mentor Graphics' VRTX - developed in part by MontaVista founder Jim Ready - and Wind River's VxWorks - have average latencies in the 8µs to 13µs range. Wind River had shunned Linux for years but now has an active...
[August 2, 2005, 9:30]
Linux Heads For TVs And Videos
News Linux is starting to encroach into the markets held by existing embedded-computing companies such as Wind River Systems, Green Hills Software, and on the turf of newcomers such as Microsoft, which are trying to make their own entrance.
[August 11, 2003, 9:15]
Open Source Mogul Joins Apple
News Hubbard had been an employee at Wind River Systems since April. Wind River -- which specialises in operating systems for all sorts of devices, such as routers or slot machines -- hired Hubbard when it acquired the software assets of Hubbard's...
[June 27, 2001, 10:31]
Real-time Responses For Linux Possible, But Unwanted
News For starters, there are traditional embedded operating-system makers such as Wind River Systems and Green Hills Software. Wind River, the leader in embedded computing, shunned Linux for years but now has a partnership with Red Hat to enter that...
[October 12, 2004, 9:35]
