Mitch,
I hope that I did not raise you level of agitation by my post. I hope you have a great birthday and, if you think about Wind, think about all the positives that were communicated in the conference call.
My only concern with Wind is my perception that they might not be aggressive enough on the sales and marketing front. The example you gave with follow up press releases concerning the NCI example is a good example - you got me on that one :) I also had a couple of concerns which arose out of the Cisco deal. First, why didn't they have a press release when they secured the 1/2 dozen design wins from Cisco. Cisco is a major player in the industry and to reference some design wins would generate further momentum with other customers. Second, why did it take a buy out of, I assume Stratacom, from Cisco for Wind River to get any penetration into the company? They should have had salesreps pushing that account from the beginning.
That said, Wind River has penetrated Cisco and other huge players, and costs to convert to another RTOS get higher all the time, even if Microsoft hires 20,000 new programmers this year (btw, check out MSFT's web site for jobs available. They have very few jobs which relate to Windows CE, and no jobs requiring RTOS experience)
Regards (and happy birthday),
Jason |
