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Which vendor? Montavista or Wind River

We're planning on moving from an in-house linux bsp to some vendor supported commercial version, due to the need to outsource any startup problem for our projects.

We evaluated both Montavista and Wind River, and:

- Montavista has the longest track record for being an expert in embedded linux, and is actively contributing to the community. Their tools offer little more than standard eclipse device development platform, but their licensing allows for broader platform support and their price is around 50% lower

- Wind River put big money on getting their distro right, and they came up with some really neat tools, like the template/layer method of applying patches, the ports of their analysis tools from VxWorks and the sensorpoints technology which is impressive. They are newer in the market, and seem still wed to their VxWorks product, which gives them most of the revenues. Their price is around 50% more than Montavista's, but maybe the tools are worth it.

Are there any relevant things we didn't take into account? Like stability, support, company health...?

Thank you

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metiu
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metiu escribió:

Wind River has increased its (VxWorks) prices a lot since 2000 (at least for small companies located outside USA, like the one I work with). If your current prices are balanced enough for you, go ahead. But I wouldn't be surprised if they rise them again in a couple of years.

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Ignacio G.T.

blah, blah, blah

You can find a plenty of European companies providing support with GPL linux avoiding to waste huge amount of money with companies you mentioned. They provide better service and are more responsive.

Reply to
Helix

Hi, now, could you point to me some of them?

We were looking for a commercial vendor to have enhanced tools and more stable support. I do use open source solutions since 1993, but it's hard to back it up in a company. Hopefully companies like Canonical will help building a dependable solution.

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metiu

Did you try to use Google ? keyword "linux embedded support" BTW in which country do you live?

Reply to
Helix

Sure I checked. As I told you, they don't trust small companies which may not be here for the whole life of the project (7 yrs).

I live > >>> Wind River has increased its (VxWorks)

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metiu

"metiu" skrev i meddelandet news: snipped-for-privacy@z24g2000prf.googlegroups.com...

What about ENEA? They are mostly known for their OSE operating system which is running on Mobile phones (Sony-Ericsson & others) and other telecom equipment like basestations.

There is a group within ENEA working on embedded Linux as well.

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They have worked with GPL linux as well as Monta Vista and Wind River Linux. Contact Anders Törnqvist (Giv him my regards).

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Ulf Samuelsson
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Ulf Samuelsson

In Italy KOAN sas

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provides commercial support for GPL licensed linux kernel

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Helix

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