[ECOS] Re: Is eCos project still alive?
Brian Austin
brian.austin@cirrus.com
Fri Dec 14 16:34:00 GMT 2007
I can see that, but as for what we use ( RedBoot ). customers love it.
>From my experiences, if it does what it's supposed to do, who cares how
old it is. How many folks use X11?
On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 15:06 -0500, Frank Pagliughi wrote:
> As a embedded-systems consultant, I've been using eCos for several
> years, and I love it. I've used it for my own development - test apps
> and demos - but I have never been able to sell a single customer on
> using the OS for a project. When a potential customer (usually a
> manager type) has a look, those things do stand out: it *looks* old and
> out of date, on first pass. Most don't seem to get past poking around
> the web page.
>
> For more technically sophisticated customers, when 2.0 first appeared,
> it literally took ten minutes to download the code, and get a sample app
> running on an old PC. Now when I tell a customer to take it for a test
> drive, the setup gets involved, with pieces from several places.
>
> I try to tell them to look closer, but by that time, they've already
> chosen something else. From my experience, the current state of the
> project doesn't seem to help sell it.
>
> Frank
>
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