Tag archive: Wind River

Gargantuan chipmaker Intel has made a major move in the embedded systems market, announcing an agreement to acquire Wind River for some $884 million in cash. Wind River makes the proprietary VxWorks real-time embedded operating system, which is widely used in consumer products like appliances and vehicles. By acquiring Wind River, Intel essentially guarantees that its x86 platforms will be major players in the embedded systems area, and… Read More

Wind River Systems and Intel have announced a partnership to develop an open-source platform for in-vehicle “infotainment” systems built on Intel's forthcoming low-power Atom processor. Unlike most existing in-vehicle platforms like Microsoft's Sync that offer Internet access, Web browsing, traffic information, and similar services, an open source system wouldn't be locked into a particular vendor or sef ot… Read More

Basically, SCO claims that the open-source Linux operating system infringes on the intellectual property developed for Unix. If the claims were to hold up in court, the business model of providing “open” software, closely associated with Linux, could be broken. The letter, sent on May 12 to Fortune 1,000 companies and 500 other global concerns, fired a shot across the bow of the Linux user community, which reacted with angry… Read More