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VxWorks 6.4 POSIX PSE52 Conformance Certification

In the post ‘ Great News for POSIX ‘, Alex Wilson commented on the announcement that VxWorks has becomes the first operating system to achieve certified conformance to POSIX PSE52...

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BARCO's MOSArt

Another great piece of news! I was really pleased to see the announcement on BARCO ‘s use of our VxWorks 653 operating system in their MOSArt system . I remember many years ago...

17 years 11 months ago

Linux fit for Defense

In an earlier blog , I commented on the potential use of Linux in Aerospace & Defense , but I didn’t provide any background information to support my assertion that people seem to...

17 years 11 months ago

Great news for POSIX

If you didn’t see the Press announcement , we have just completed our conformance testing of VxWorks to POSIX 1003.13 PSE52 with The Open Group [ IEEE Conformance Web ]!! This adds...

17 years 11 months ago

Obsolescence and Standardisation

I was reading through one of my (many) news feeds the other day when I came across an excellent article in Flight which reminded me of issues around obsolescence. The contract as...

Red Hat is NOT Carrier-Grade Linux

There was a very interesting announcement yesterday from Red Hat regarding a collaboration with Nokia for carrier grade server systems. The most interesting thing I noticed about...

Compliance vs Conformance?

What is the difference between compliance and conformance and what does that mean to you and me? Or more importantly what does this mean to your project? Well, compliance is an...

MS taking some pain out of WinCE?

Microsoft has released WinCE 6.0 – this time as a " shared source " release, with various enhancements. Some of the big claims-to-fame: It’s the "first commercial hard real-time OS...

Pentagon urges 'relevant' R&D

In a recent article in EETimes ( ‘Pentagon urges ‘relevant’ R&D’ , 23rd October 2006, pages 1 & 80), George Leopold reported on a marked shift in US federal R&D funding away from...

POSIX Profiles

Well, as work caught up with me I missed the Lisbon experience, but apparently it was raining there anyway – so it was just like home! As I mentioned profiles in my last blog, I...