quote: "Seems not so obvious. So QNX has an opensource part but for BBB it implies these steps ..."
hm, ok sry I must have missed your point :) I agree that QNX is probably the best choice for a robust and well designet real time embedded system. In this I do not bother the OS-price or royalty which probably is scalable. Texas Instruments learned this 10 or 15 Years ago when the Code Composer Studio was very expensive and a simple JTAG Pod cost 3.000,-. Even Microsoft pushes the development platforms for free into the market, because all of them understand that the major market is selling the operating system (in case of Microsoft) or selling the hardware (in case of TI) and not selling the development solutions. See XILINX, development studio incuding simulator for free. This is what makes people work with it. Expecting 10.000,- as entry cost is the best guaranty to avoid thousands of developers working with QNX and thereby hundreds of thousands licences of the OS. I dont understand this philosophy .... 20 Years of experience as embedded developer showed me on thing. 1.000,- eur or $ ist the magic barrier. this is what people invest as an attempt for some half cooked idea thy have. Max be that 95 % of those ideas will never reach any state of economic asset, but once in a while it will and it will do with power. suppressing this kind of innovative forces is hurting the provider itself. I am 50% convinced today that I will build my platform on Linux RT. keep you posted ... Thorsten. Am Freitag, 14. März 2014 10:54:19 UTC+1 schrieb dlewin555: > > Well that was my point in my previous comment. Whereas I think QNX is a > really great RTOS hopefully "brigded" to opensource -whereas being closed > source- in recent years (yes recent compared to >20 years of existence) , > from the start I've believed in the µKernel architecture as the best one. > Anyway, prices and -*royalties*- allways stopped me, as for µC/OS as > well. > Honestly, I really like to use QNX on BBB but strongly believe that if > it's not on Raspberry it won't be ported to BBB neither. > > > > > 2014-03-14 10:40 GMT+01:00 Thorsten Gonschior < > tgons...@spectral-process.com <javascript:>>: > >> NEWS: - Show stopper - >> >> After clearing up some technical aspects I ran into a major show stopper. >> Price of QNX Develoment environment is about 10.000,-eur. Even if I would >> be willing to invest this kind of money, my tarket was to establish a >> development platform for engineering offices. I know for sure that most of >> small engineering offices or soltary engineer are not willing or able to >> invest this for smaller of projects. >> >> I start the attempt to convince QNX that there is a large community out >> there willing to work with qnx OS for a huge variety of projects and >> applications, but not willing to passt this kind of entry barrier. >> >> >> I would appreciate comments on my assumption. >> >> Regards, >> Thorsten. >> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beagleboard/CS0So4bFsFk/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> beagleboard...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
