Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 7th Mar 2006 21:20 UTC, submitted by John Mills
During a presentation on IBM's involvement with Open Source, Andreas Pleschek from IBM in Stuttgart, Germany, who heads open source and Linux technical sales across North East Europe for IBM made a very interesting statement. "Andreas Pleschek also told that IBM has cancelled their contract with Microsoft as of October this year. That means that IBM will not use Windows Vista for their desktops. Beginning from July, IBM employees will begin using IBM Workplace on their new, Red Hat-based platform. Not all at once - some will keep using their present Windows versions for a while. But none will upgrade to Vista."
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RE[2]: Yeah it will be huge...
by smitty on Wed 8th Mar 2006 00:47
in reply to "RE: Yeah it will be huge..."
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Yes, VxWorks is a RTOS, and one that is doesn't even do that great of a job at certain RTOS tasks (for what I would expect in something you have to pay for). Although it's a pretty good product overall.
OTOH, Linux is NOT a RTOS and Linksys was probably doing lots of modifications to the kernel in order to get it working like they wanted on their hardware, so it isn't surprising that VxWorks might be cheaper.
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2006-03-03
i think it's not very suitable to compare linux to VxWorks, afaik vxworks is a RTOS built for small devices (as well as big ones). And this is not the case for Linux which is a general purpose OS.
If you were to compare, you'd better compare VxWorks with eCos.
Linksys just made a design error when choosing Linux for a small device only requiring 2MB of RAM, they should have chosen eCos.