No comments, although I have started looking at the company. I don’t think it is a direct competitor to WIND; although their purchase of Intel’s iRMS RTOS is interesting, remindng me of Novell’s sale of flexOS to INTS.
I remember talking to a Microsoft booth guy at an embedded systems show more than a year ago, and almost laughing at what the guy was selling: Embedded MSDOS Intel boards. I thought, you have to be kidding, DOS is not real-time in any multi-tasking sense, so what are you even doing here. His answer was that MSDOS/Intel embedded systems boards were familiar to lots of people, and were being used for lots of applications, real-time or not. So many, in fact, that probably Microsoft probably was the largest embedded systems OS company.
RSYS seems to be an extension of that level of thinking, and they seem to be doing fine. While I concede that Windows NT is a Unix killer, I have a real hard time believing that MSDOS in a box, or an Intel discard, iRMX, is serious competition to WIND, INTS and MWAR.
Allen, |
