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LinuxDevices: Wind River Launches Its First Embedded Linux, Aimed at Telecom

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 1, 2004

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“Thirteen months after taking the ‘first step’ of a stategic
shift toward Linux, the world’s largest embedded software company
is set to ship its inaugural Linux product. ‘Linux Platform for
Network Equipment, Linux Edition’ targets makers of
telecommunications equipment who use Linux on the control plane
along with Wind River’s proprietary VxWorks real-time operating
system (RTOS) on the data plane, and it includes middleware that
lets Linux and VxWorks processes intercommunicate. Additionally,
the company has updated its Eclipse-based Workbench development
suite to work with 2.6-series kernels and has upgraded the tool to
Eclipse 3.0, among other advances…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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