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RE: How does people think of ecos's future compare to so many existing RTOS? eg.RT-Linux, Embedded Linux, VxWorks, etc.. Welcome to discuss


Microsoft Windows and WRS vxWorks both bring something to the
table that is hard to overcome in the market.

Mindshare. There are two faces to this. The comfort level of
large corporate managers to buy from another large corporation
and the existing knowledge base of developers that have been
creating solutions under each OS for years.

You can hire developers with vxWorks (or Windows) experience
almost anywhere.

There is also a vast trove of documentation, on-line and off,
available for each of these OSes.

Linux is now gaining mindshare to a point where it can effectively
compete with Windows in certain applications and markets.

ECos has a much higher hill to climb in terms of mind share,
and part of that is due to dilution by embedded Linux.

Doug Fraser

> -----Original Message-----
> From: NavEcos [mailto:ecos@navosha.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 5:46 AM
> To: Qiang Huang; Ecos-Discuss
> Subject: Re: [ECOS] How does people think of ecos's future 
> compare to so
> many existing RTOS? eg.RT-Linux, Embedded Linux, VxWorks, 
> etc.. Welcome
> to discuss
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 01 October 2002 02:14 am, Qiang Huang wrote:
> > Just curious about the future of ecos compare to other 
> RTOS, anybody have
> > any idea?
> >
> > thanks
> 
> I think that if Linux is to Microsoft Windows, that eCos is 
> to vxWorks.
> 
> In my opinion, companies are CRAZY to be willing to pay $100K 
> plus royalties 
> to develop with vxWorks when eCos exists.  For some 
> applications you need the 
> greater complexity of vxWorks, but not many of them.
> 
> -Rich
> 
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