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Wind River and Red Hat are working to create the first truly complete Linux-based Platforms for the Device Software Optimization (DSO) market. Combining Wind River's commercial development tools, middleware, and services with Red Hat's Enterprise Linux base, the Platforms will offer a scalable, secure solution that can optimize software implementation across the device, desktop and server worlds.
Device manufacturers are under ever-increasing pressure to build more intelligent and more inter-connected products. By 2009, more than 14 billion of these devices will need to connect to each other and to enterprise applications. Software that runs these devices is becoming exponentially more complex and difficult to specify, implement and integrate. Today, many companies use a device development model that can be inefficient and insufficient. Their developers struggle with a mix of different silicon architectures, operating systems, middleware, and development tools.
Wind River is already the market leader in commercial device software optimization with its proprietary real-time operating system, VxWorks, and VxWorks based Wind River Platforms. By also building Wind River Platforms based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, customers will also have access to the most widely deployed Linux technology that is fully embraced by the open source community. These Platforms will enable the standardization and optimization of device software development across the enterprise using Wind River's VxWorks, Linux, or both.
Platform standardization will enable developers to move from low-level integration work to innovative product functionality and brand enhancement. Globally distributed project teams, previously specialized and isolated, will more easily be able to relocate, share and re-use development work. And entire organizations will be able to benefit from greatly simplified vendor management and reduced training costs. The market demands product flexibility and interoperability. The new reality is that proprietary and open-source architectures must coexist and talk to each other — often in the same device – securely and reliably.
"Previous attempts at creating a commercial Linux distribution for device software have resulted in a fragmented marketplace that still lacks a standard set of tools and reliable products," said Bill Claybrook, vice president of Linux strategy at Harvard Research Group. "The Wind River and Red Hat partnership provides the complete package -- technology, support and expertise -- that will enable Linux to become firmly established as a viable and standardized option for device development."
