Wind River unveils latest Linux platform

BANGALORE: Wind

River Systems announced the latest release of its industry-leading

Commercial Grade Linux product line with specific new features geared towards

consumer device and network equipment manufacturers.

At its foundation is a pristine, unmodified, stable version of the Linux

2.6.14 kernel. Available today, the Linux editions of the Wind River General

Purpose Platform, Platform for Consumer Devices and Platform for Network

Equipment ship with the latest version of the company's Eclipse-based device

software development suite, Wind River Workbench

2.5 and include significant new enhancements to runtime performance and

footprint size, networking protocols, security, file systems and hardware

architectures.

Venkatesh Kumaran, country manager India at Wind River, said, “This release

addresses two key growth segments for Linux: consumer devices and network

equipment. Our key market segments include mobile handsets and digital media

devices in the consumer space and Carrier Grade Linux

based equipment in the networking segment.”

“Wind River is in a favorable position to address these high-growth markets

with our commercial grade quality distribution that is based on the open

standards adopted by those segments, our broad ecosystem of hardware and

software partners and our industry-leading services and support organizations,”

he added.

Wind River's development suite offers customers complete development

lifecycle solutions from board bring-up to application development to testing.

Based on Eclipse, the Workbench development suite can be easily extended to

include open source and in-house plug-in tools.

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