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RTLinux acquisition from FSMLabs

I was really pleased to see the news about Wind River’s acquisition of RTLinux hard real-time Linux (ZDnet) from FSMLabs. Linux is already starting to be used in certain types of...

17 years 10 months ago

Linux drive development model turned upside down!

In what one Slashdot -er describes as an ‘ epic announcement ‘, Greg Kroah-Hartman has offered up the services of the Linux Kernel developer horde as free labor for device driver...

17 years 10 months ago

Tools standardisation

Changing tracks for a moment I couldn’t help but pick up on one of my Google Alerts this morning regarding what is essentially the technology behind DSO standardisation – ECLIPSE...

17 years 10 months ago

A robot in every home

I’ve been trying to keep track of industry news, and at the moment it seems as to me as if everyone is either blogging about the Apple iPhone (Engadget blog) or Windows Vista...

17 years 10 months ago

Eclipse is Who?

I don’t want to beat a dead horse on the “Eclipse is You” thread ( Bjorn , Doug , Steve , Eugene , Doug , Ian , Dennis , Bjorn , John ), but I figured everyone else is tired of...

17 years 11 months ago

Can Automotive learn from Avionics Safety?

In my previous post on software safety standards, in response to some questions raised by Alex Wilson , I commented on what I believe are signs of convergence between avionics...

17 years 11 months ago

Safety Standards Convergence?

In a recent post on software certification , Alex Wilson asked why there are so many software safety certification standards? The current situation is of course due to historical...

17 years 11 months ago

Software Certification

I wonder why it is always the case that the period of time just before year end is suddenly very hectic! There must be a universal law about that, something like Murphy’s Law...

Mitigating Risk

The phone rings. A customer has an application destined for a high-risk environment, and somewhere in test they’ve found a new unanticipated condition. A " Tiger Team " is formed –...

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...