News Intel buys Wind River Systems

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2009/06/05/intel/1

Intel is trying to bring its might to bear on the embedded systems market with the purchase for $884 million of specialists Wind River Systems.

 

Even with that big EU fine, they can still spend millions. I'll get a job there then

 

Yup, only on IP switches we use, but still To be honest I didn't know that this is 'such great piece of software', especially that in switches we use it happens, that with bulk FTP sessions one out of 10 hangs... On the other time only one out of 100... But the only solution is the switch reset.

I don't know, maybe the issue is in the hardware - I hope, especially hearing that it is used by NASA

 

Not gonna happen; a lot of defence projects use their stuff, quite frequently on Motorola 68k series or PPC CPUs.