“In a showdown with Microsoft Windows CE, the QNX RTOS once again defended its position as the most powerful and reliable realtime operating systems for embedded developers. According to a study by Dedicated Systems Experts, the QNX RTOS v6.1 significantly outperformed Windows CE 3.0 in several tests.” Read the rest of the press release at QNX.
QNX RTOS Tops Windows CE in OS Shoot-out
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Nice to see that at least one corporate company is able to perform, and perform well, against Microsoft. Nice quality software, keep it rolling
tom6789:
lol!
Dave Poirier:
I’m a big fan of QNX stuff, it’s good to hear that they haevn’t been crushed by microsoft
If only QNX was as dominent on the desktop than the embedded world … *sigh*
It could happen if they cleanup the desktop interface alittle 🙂
I want to love QNX-RTP (desktop), but each time I give it a try, there’s some aspect I dislike too much. Especially a lack of microsoft-like IDE for developement (i.e. KDevelop, Visual Studio, etc) and I know it may seem trivial, but in my case it’s the little “candy” that make all the difference.
I don’t like the API tho. A bizarre flat C API trying to emulate a C++ modular architecture. I personnally prefere full C or full C++ in design.
Something I would like: QNX + KDevelop + BeOS API … mmmm joy-ride … 😉
Remember IBM donating $40 million of IDE tools called eclipse to the open community. PhAB is being overhauled to work as a plug-in under the eclipse tools and both are scheduled to be release at the end of Q1.
The API’s may be “too POSIX” compliant — that’s why many people thinks QNX’s API’s are all wrong.
I’m not here to flame, but I am here to point out that QNX had better not relax. When anything starts showing up in a benchmark against Microsoft, thats when Microsoft begins its concerted effort to buy or destroy the competition. You can bet that when this report was announced, that major resources were shifted to the WinCE team, and the benchmarks in the report will be rectified at next release.
QNX had better get on the ball and generate/dominate entire new categories related to RTOSs. Otherwise, MS will dominate them in the next release and provide a slew of new features that will require benchmarks which QNX will never hope to catch up to.
It’s happened in the past. In the past there were the same excuses we will hear here, like –“oh, but QNX does…” and “QNX is really…”. And 6 months later, QNX is ancient history and industrial automation becomes the purview of MS.
View Palm, Novell, Sun, and soon, Oracle, Sony PS, and Palm. MS has literally littered the tech highway with the rotting corpses of its victims. QNX had best become the RTOS Emperor and make MS bow to its every move if QNX wants to live. If QNX just rests as the current best, their corpse will just be another on that long road MS is marching to grab the trophy of world OS domination.
I predict that QNX will in fact be destroyed by MS within 2 years or less. Sorry for the pessimism, but no one yet has proven they can run with MS when MS decides to run.
David
Email hint is that I pass alot of cars, but rarely do I pass a corvette.
Recent actions by Microsoft suggest that they are not going to compete with qnx and vxworks heads-on — Embedded XP is for the “feature-rich” IA’s and webpads (since minimum footprint required by embedded xp is close to 5 megs).
QNX has repeatedly stated that they are in the business of medical instrumentations, telecom infrastructures and telematics. Out of these three areas, QNX only crosses paths with Microsoft in telematics. QNX has already been selected as the OS in numerous telematics systems for the 2004-5 model year cars. And since the auto industry redesign their cars only every 3-4 years, QNX would be in those telematics systems at least until the 2007-8 model years.
QNX’s market is very selective and conservative. It will probably take QNX the next couple of years just to certify their QNX 6 for FDA/FAA/…. purposes.
I agree that when Microsoft want to fight, few can resists. Thats simply a fact. And for that, it’s very possible they’ll crush QNX in the futur (in fact it’s already done?) on all IA technologies (handhelds, etc).
The niche where QNX will be VERY tought to be removed is in all other embedded area, especially criticals ones. QNX is a “System Critical” certified operating system (necessary to handle tasks like hospital, airplanes, and all other area where humans lives can be lost because of a system failure).
I still think Windows CE is a *long* way before becoming SC certified.
Can you imagine yourself, in an hospital, plugged on an iron-lung, 100% controlled by a Windows CE ? Urg ! Me neither !
It would bring a whole new meaning to the term “Blue Screen Of Death”.
MS won’t beat QNX on a technical level, in advertising, in wiz-bang features but this is the embedded world where performance/stability rule and that’s why MS won’t beat them. MS has been trying to get into the embedded market for years and haven’t been top-dog ever. Face you need a good OS to win the embedded market.
MS certainly has the money to do whatever they want. They’ve obtained enough loot through their robberies to invest anywhere they please, and they continue to do so.
I’d love a PDA running QNX.
So is it possible for an end-user to throw away WinCE and install QNX?
iPaq running QNX.
http://207.198.90.123/ipaq_bsp/