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


Time and cost for trainning the developer for the new OS is important for
company, that's why some OS is popular while others not. this is just my own
opinion.

-----Original Message-----
From: NavEcos [mailto:ecos@navosha.com]
Sent: 01 October 2002 14:51
To: Doug Fraser; Qiang Huang; Ecos-Discuss
Subject: Re: [ECOS] How does people think of ecos's future compare to so m
any existing RTOS? eg.RT-Linux, Embedded Linux, VxWorks, etc.. Welcome to
discuss


On Tuesday 01 October 2002 04:36 am, Doug Fraser wrote:
> 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.

It has never been a consideration at any company I worked with for
EMBEDDED operating systems what the engineers already know.  I have
worked with pSOS, vxWorks, WinCE, BlueCat, and several roll-your-own
OSes.  I think in the majority of corporations all that matters for
an embedded OS is first, can it do the job (this includes tools),
and second, what does it cost.  In embedded applications, pennies
count.

With Linux and Windows, there is a question of administration and a
pre-installed userbase that doesn't exist with embedded operating
systems.

> 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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