Folks, Here's a more in-depth overview from Paul Anderson [Wind River], the speaker I lined up for Nov. 6. Could anyone provide a decent estimate of how many people Paul can expect? John ------ >From Marketing: About Wind River Wind River is the market leader in device software optimization. Wind River enables companies to develop and run software faster, better, at a lower cost and more reliably. Wind River Platforms tightly integrate a rich set of market-leading operating systems, development tools and middleware with services to provide a complete foundation that meets the specific requirements of a vertical market. Wind River's products and professional services are used in multiple markets including aerospace and defense, automotive, digital consumer, industrial, and network infrastructure. Companies from around the world turn to Wind River to create the most reliable products and to accelerate their time to market. Founded in 1981, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations worldwide. To learn more, visit Wind River at http://www.windriver.com or call Wind River at 1-800-872-4977. A bit more technical description from me: Since 1981, Wind River Systems has been providing: - Embedded runtime software components: - VxWorks real time operating system - Embedded Linux products - Networking stacks and middleware - Compiliers, and software assist technology: - Standalone compiler technology (Diab and GNU compilers) - Integrated development environments (Tornado and Workbench) - Hardware assist technology: - In-circuit emulators (ICE and JTAG) - Reference boards - Complete market-specific development platform products for the following markets: - Networking and Telco Infrastructure - Consumer - Industrial - Automotive - Safety Critical applications - General Purpose Device Applications We are the largest single commercial provider of device development and runtime software in the market. We run on everything from the Apple Airport to the Mars Rover, and everything in between. We run on all major architectures (IA, PPC, MIPS, ARM/XSCALE), and have development tools running on most available operating systems. A description of my talk: Open Source, and the Future of Device Software ---------------------------------------------- Market forces, and disruptive technological change are creating a revolution in how we think about devices, and the software in them. Just as Personal Computers replaced the majority of Mainframes and Workstations, a similar trend is underway how embedded device design, development, and deployment occurs. We will explore the important elements of change, focusing specifically on how the Open Source movement is leading change, and an overview of how Wind River is responding to these changes. Come and learn about the opportunities ahead! -------------- I can also bring along a technical overview of the company's products, and/or talk specificially about the company's plans for Embedded Linux, if you think that would be a better topic for the meeting. And... I can get into serious "Geek Banter" too with the gang if they would like that. Just give me a white board and we'll be off to the races! ;-) Let me know what you think. Thanks, -pja Ps. How many people do you expect to attend? _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list