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  • Artigo

Some of our customers enjoy more than one flavor of operating system in their shop, sometimes this may go to the extreme from Windows XP Embedded to the other end of the spectrum of Wind River.

Wind River has put together a really nice blog network that picks up feeds from various blogging sites dedicated to the Wind River products, device scenarios and their customers.

Here's a couple of interesting articles:

  Linux? Real time? I don't think so...

  Microsoft versus Linux in Automotive Industry

Agree or disagree, this is good stuff! I've subscribed to their feed.

- Andy

Comments

  • Anonymous
    October 28, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    October 28, 2006
    Hi Tom, i'm realitively new to the automotive infotainment or Car PC area, can you elaborate on where you think an OS manufacturer should focus their attention to win new business? Do you see shortcomings in XPe here? I'd love for XPe to be considered for some scenarios in vehicles, it's an interesting topic. I think some issues an OS would have to address in this area might be boot time, robustness and reliability, longevity in the marketplace meaning the car manufacturer can expect long term support of the OS like Point of Sale manufacturers expect (up to 10 years is what i think POS expects). Thank you, andy.

  • Anonymous
    October 28, 2006
    In my view, Windows Mobile would be a better choice than XPe. I think automakers would want to distance themselves from the perceived and/or actual reliability problems associated with desktop XP. I'm not sure whether XPe really achieves that goal, whereas, it is clear to me that Windows Mobile does accomplish that. Anyone who has used Windows Mobile in a phone or PDA quickly gets a feel for the OS in terms of its resource requirements, fast boot-up, and reliability. Really, I think winning business in automotive is more of a marketing issue rather than a technical one. Microsoft needs to convey its long-term committment to the market (as you say) -- this is really important, and needs to cut costs for initial projects a lot in order to buy market share and gain momentum. Remember, the automotive market is very cost sensitive - there is constant pressure by automotive OEMs upon suppliers to cut their costs. And I can tell you this - the last OS I want running anywhere in my vehicle is Linux. That is entirely the wrong direction, in my opinion.