QNX Acquired by Harman

Bryan Hackney wrote:

>Our designs prefer logic machines to accomplish the hard-time stuff,
>and non-real-time OS to support the higher level functions,
>and to keep the hardware fed. And of course, where logic is insufficient,
>we program sans OS, as God intended.

Not a bad methodology, unless you have a competitor who is using
Forth on a uC -- if that ever happens you won't be able to beat
the competition in the areas of time-to-market, system cost, or
development cost. Then again, you might have a competitor who is 
using Windowws CE, in which case he is the one who won't be able 
to beat yiu in the areas of time-to-market, system cost, or
development cost.

Joerg wrote:
> 
> Hi CBFalconer,
> 
> >...  For example, the GPOS need not succeed in avoiding indefinite postponement under all circumstances, but the RTOS must absolutely guarantee process service in a specified time quantum.
> >
> That's exactly the point. If an interrupt latency cannot be
> hard-specified to xx microseconds or even milliseconds it is not an RTOS

I don't know what you are doing to mung quotations from me, but
anything I wrote was limited to 65 char lines.  You are converting
them into something that far exceeds standards.

-- 
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   Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems.
   <http://cbfalconer.home.att.net>  USE worldnet address!

Guy Macon wrote:
> I don't know about "widely held", but QNX Neutrino is arguably
> the world�s most advanced operating system.  Alas, it isn't
> a *general purpose* operating system.

What's your base for such a statement? I am starting to evaluate it for 
some designs. What about LynxOS (my other candidate) ?


Regards.

Elder Costa wrote:
>
>Guy Macon wrote:
>
>> I don't know about "widely held", but QNX Neutrino is arguably
>> the world�s most advanced operating system.  Alas, it isn't
>> a *general purpose* operating system.
>
>What's your base for such a statement? I am starting to evaluate 
>it for some designs. What about LynxOS (my other candidate) ?

Your use of the phrase "some designs" leads me to believe that
you are looking for an embedded OS and possibly a RTOS.  If
you were talking about a general purpose OS I would expect to
see you talking about office suites and support for the latest
games on the latest videocards.  

Look at http://www.qnx.com/.  They aren;t pushing it as something to
replace Windows XP or Linux on the desktop, but rather as something
to put inside routers and DVD platers.

Now look at http://www.lynuxworks.com/. They are pushing it for 
avionics, not general purpose use.

If you don't need real-time and your application is to run on a
standard desktop PC used by a typical user - general purpose
computing - Linux is a better choice IMO.

For real-time embedded applications, QNX and LynxOS are both fine
choices.

Hi CBFalconer,

>I don't know what you are doing to mung quotations from me, but
>anything I wrote was limited to 65 char lines.  You are converting
>them into something that far exceeds standards.
>  
>
Sorry, sometimes my newsreader (Mozilla) does that and I have no clue 
why. It happens sporadically and it also mungs my text as well at times. 
Had tried Netscape before but the problems were much worse. Also, I 
tried both on very different PCs. Same thing.

BTW, I have it set to 65 characters in the setup menu.

Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com

Guy Macon wrote:

> Elder Costa wrote:
> 
>>Guy Macon wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I don't know about "widely held", but QNX Neutrino is arguably
>>>the world�s most advanced operating system.  Alas, it isn't
>>>a *general purpose* operating system.
>>
>>What's your base for such a statement? I am starting to evaluate 
>>it for some designs. What about LynxOS (my other candidate) ?
> 
> 
> Your use of the phrase "some designs" leads me to believe that
> you are looking for an embedded OS and possibly a RTOS.  If

Actually, both. :-)

> you were talking about a general purpose OS I would expect to
> see you talking about office suites and support for the latest
> games on the latest videocards.  
> 

Sorry. My quote induced you to think my question regarded the "general 
purpose" statement but it was about "the world's most advanced operating 
system" statement.

> Look at http://www.qnx.com/.  They aren;t pushing it as something to
> replace Windows XP or Linux on the desktop, but rather as something
> to put inside routers and DVD platers.
> 
> Now look at http://www.lynuxworks.com/. They are pushing it for 
> avionics, not general purpose use.
> 
> If you don't need real-time and your application is to run on a
> standard desktop PC used by a typical user - general purpose
> computing - Linux is a better choice IMO.
> 
> For real-time embedded applications, QNX and LynxOS are both fine
> choices.
> 

They are AFAICT closer to general system than other RTOSes (VxWorks, 
Integrity etc.) in the sense one can use them as development hosts and 
even run some desktop like applications on them (Lynx has a compatibilty 
layer for linux applications - I wonder how well it works.) For 
applications that involve graphics display of information and data 
recovery on a networked system (bedside monitors from which one could 
retrieve patients data for instance) they seem to provide an easier path 
to final product than some other RTOSes (again VxWors, Integrity etc.) 
that need third party componentes to perform the same tasks. I wonder 
how good are their development tools though.

Regards.

Guy Macon wrote:

> QNX Acquired by Harman
> 
> OTTAWA & WASHINGTON, October 27, 2004 - QNX Software Systems
> today announced it has accepted an offer of purchase from
> Harman International Industries, Incorporated (NYSE: HAR).
> [clip...]
> Source: [ http://www.openqnx.com/Article337.html ]

here additional 2 articles of the Ottawa Business Journal
http://www.ottawabusinessjournal.com/281777372611416.php

and Ottawa Citizen
http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/business/story.html?id=e08aa551-999d-4a32-a83b-6494d72a0543


Jutta Steinhoff
STEINHOFF Automation & Fieldbus-Systems

Jutta Steinhoff wrote:
>
>Guy Macon <http://www.guymacon.com> wrote:
>
>> QNX Acquired by Harman
>> 
>> OTTAWA & WASHINGTON, October 27, 2004 - QNX Software Systems
>> today announced it has accepted an offer of purchase from
>> Harman International Industries, Incorporated (NYSE: HAR).
>> [clip...]
>> Source: [ http://www.openqnx.com/Article337.html ]
>
>here additional 2 articles of the Ottawa Business Journal
>http://www.ottawabusinessjournal.com/281777372611416.php
>
>and Ottawa Citizen
>http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/business/story.html?id=e08aa551-999d-4a32-a83b-6494d72a0543

"We get the capital we need now to compete with Microsoft, rather 
than wait four or five years"
                                 -- QNX Chief executive Dan Dodge

-- 
Guy Macon <http://www.guymacon.com>

Guy Macon wrote:
> Jutta Steinhoff wrote:
>>
>> Guy Macon <http://www.guymacon.com> wrote:
>>
>>> QNX Acquired by Harman
>>>
>>> OTTAWA & WASHINGTON, October 27, 2004 - QNX Software Systems
>>> today announced it has accepted an offer of purchase from
>>> Harman International Industries, Incorporated (NYSE: HAR).
>>> [clip...]
>> and Ottawa Citizen
>> http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/business/story.html?id=e08aa551-999d-4a32-a83b-6494d72a0543
>
> "We get the capital we need now to compete with Microsoft, rather
> than wait four or five years"
>                                 -- QNX Chief executive Dan Dodge

If you're going to dream, might as well dream big...

Scott