Allen,
I am interested in your view of the OS roadmap that WIND presented at the end of Feb. In particular:
1. Do you think there are any risks associated with the "Cirrus", "Stratus" and "Cumulus" transitions.
a). Issues that might arise executing the plan.
b) Some smaller RTOS companies seem to see this as some kind of opportunity to pick up some pSOS business. Perhaps they are just looking to feed on the crumbs that might fall from the WIND table or is there more to it than that ?
2. What is the real significance of the enhancements like domain technology for memory protection, application isolation and high availability. Is WIND targeting new areas/devices with these enhancements ? Sounds like these features could be useful in the single CPU "ideal QCOM" phone.
3. Is it correct to say that IxWorks is outside and separate to the VxWorks/pSOS Cirrus, Stratus, Cumulus convergence ?
Wind River Unveils Unified Product and Business Strategy
wrs.com
"The next version of the Tornado development environment and VxWorks RTOS, code-named project "Cirrus," will be available by Q3 2000 and will form the foundation of Wind River?s operating system and IDE platform. It will support all leading host systems, including Linux. Cirrus will also include protection domain technology for memory protection and application isolation as well as features for high availability. The next generation of the pRISM IDE and pSOS RTOS will be code named project "Stratus" and will be available by Q3 2000. Stratus will feature runtime enhancements including memory protection and compatibility with the latest Diab / SDS releases.
Following Stratus and Cirrus, Wind River will converge to a single RTOS and IDE that combines the best of both operating systems, called "Cumulus". It will be available in 2001 and will include all the features of Cirrus as well as advanced high availability, enhanced connectivity for distributed computing, increased Java programmability, and enhanced features from the SNIFF+ development tool. In addition, Cumulus will include support for the pSOS API and other characteristics unique to the pSOS operating system."
Regards
JC. |
