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To: unclewest who wrote (22833)	4/16/2000 1:16:00 AM
From: the hube	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

i am particularly interested, personally, in wind's vxworks role in the entire embedded market. and, if anyone other than wind offers a complete design system...negating the need for every company using embedded processors to have a software design staff. i understand those guys are getting hard to find. I don't think it really negates the need for companies using embedded processors to have a software design staff--it just lets that design staff design product differentiating features using industry standard features instead of spending their efforts writing OS code. By standardizing on VxWorks, which supports the largest variety of processors of any operating system, the design team is allowed to be somewhat processor agnostic when beginning the product design phase. If you use your own system, or that of a much smaller competitor, it is that much harder, more expensive and time comsuming to hire qualified engineers. There are other companies besides Wind that offer complete solutions in some areas (QNX for example). No one, however, has the types of value chains that Wind has (from the chip manufacturers to the providers of middleware to the VARS such as Liberate or Flashpoint to the network providers). With their recent acquisitions, they have become an intellectual property powerhouse. IMO, the story is just beginning, and will only get better.