>My question is does Wind River have any thing to do
> with JAVA? If Java makes money does Wind River?
Yes. Yes.
Actually all the major RTOS companies have been scrambling to overlay a Java Virtual Machine on top of their OS, and by now probably all have succeeded. MWAR negotiated directly with SUNW early on to have license rights to the Java Development Kit - at a relatively low unit royalty cost. SUNW then turned Java over to JavaSoft, with whom WIND got a license deal at less favorable terms, but with access to the latest Java offerings. Meanwhile, as I understand it, INTS is implementing a clone JavaOS, which, like MWAR, is at reduced royalty costs.
Of the three, JavaSoft obviously likes dealing with WIND best at the moment, because it is not even dealing with the other two, but its too early yet in the Java game to rule any company out.
You might have noticed MWARs recent, repeat announcement about IBM using OS-9 in a reference NC. If nothing else, the NC is a Java machine.
More important to this thread, you should be aware of Oracle's selection of WIND for their 2nd generation NC. Larry Ellison will have lots to say about the NC, and Oracle8 specifically, on the 24th of June. (Long time readers of this thread will recall the importance I have always placed on Oracle's dominance of the server side of the NC. That dominance will now begin to show with Oracle8 and the Oracle's version of the Universal Server.)
One of Sun's apparent goals was to take over the embedded systems world with JavaOS embedded in silicon - much like Lucent's recent announcement that Inferno/Limbo is the best way to embedded systems. The fact is that Java will become popular, but overlaying an RTOS running on a plethora of processors, not in stand-alone form.
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