Jerry Fiddler co-founded Wind River in 1981 and has taken on many roles during the past 19 years, from chief and only programmer to president and CEO to chairman of the board of one of the world's largest software companies. Jerry was recently profiled on KICU-TV's “Silicon Valley Business This Week” (located here). (more…)

PETERBOROUGH, N.H. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — Hollywood sci-fi androids have led people to believe that the state of mobile robotics is well beyond what is actually the case. ActivMedia's PeopleBot breaks the price barrier restraining human-interaction robotics development. Because of PeopleBot, engineers and programmers will now be able to transform expectations created by science fiction into actual… (more…)

Jerry Fiddler co-founded Wind River in 1981 and has taken on many roles during the past 19 years, from chief and only programmer to president and CEO to chairman of the board of one of the world's largest software companies. LinuxDevices.com founder Rick Lehrbaum recently chatted with Jerry regarding Wind River's perspective on Linux and the open-source software phenomenon. (more…)

VA Linux Systems, Inc., a leader in Linux and Open Source solutions, today introduced the SourceForge CompileFarm — a unique service that gives Open Source developers a convenient way to build and test applications on multiple versions of the Linux and BSD operating systems over the Internet. (more…)

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. — (PRNewswire) — The worldwide thin client market is quickly growing fat. IDC expects shipments to weigh in at almost 1.3 million by year end 2000, 80% heavier than at the start of the year — and that's after a 90% increase in 1999. (more…)

Socorro, New Mexico — (company press release) — FSMLabs announces that it is developing an Alpha AXP port of the RTLinux hard realtime extension for Linux for Compaq's Alpha product line. The agreement with Compaq was finalized in late February, and work has already begun. (more…)

FREMONT, Calif. — Bitmicro Networks, today unveiled what it calls “the world's fastest EIDE solid state flash disk,” the ATX35 E-Disk. It is the latest addition to the company's product line of fast and reliable solid state flash disks. (more…)

HILLSBORO, Ore. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — RadiSys Corp., a leading global designer and manufacturer of embedded computing solutions used by OEMs in the telecommunications, automation and other industries, launched a new CompactPCI (cPCI) based single board computer — the EPC-3306 system controller. (more…)

LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Intel and its Dialogic subsidiary, today announced that it has expanded its operating system (OS) platform coverage with the addition of support for Linux. Several early adopter customers are currently using the Dialogic development kit to port to the Linux OS. (more…)

Graham Lea writes, in The Register . . .

“Lineo, the successor company to Caldera Thin Clients, is developing a Linux-based CE clone at its new research facility, cheekily set up earlier this year in Seattle. The product, Lineo Embedix PDA, is scheduled to ship in Q1 2001.” (more…)

Stephen Shankland writes in CNET News.com . . .

“Motorola said today it will come out in May with Linux servers for telecommunications that will be guaranteed to stay up 99.999 percent of the time–all but five minutes of the year. This level of availability is possible because CPUs, fans, power supplies and cards will be plugged into PCI slots. (more…)

David Raikow writes, in [email protected] Reseller . . .

“The Motorola Inc. division claimed HA Linux will offer 99.999 percent availability, a rating commonly called “five nines,” amounting to no more than five minutes of downtime per year. HA Linux is aimed at large, high-end telecommunications applications that require extreme stability, such as call servers and IP gateways.”

“David Peters, Motorola… (more…)

TEMPE, Az. — (company press release) — Motorola Computer Group (MCG), part of Motorola's Integrated Electronics Systems Sector (IESS), announced its advanced High Availability Linux (HA Linux) offering, strengthening its position as the leader in high-availability embedded computing platforms for the telecommunications industry. (more…)

Peter Clarke writes, at EETimes.com . . .

“Open-source licensing of 32-bit processor cores is gaining ground, as the European Space Agency recently made available its Leon-1 CPU core. Though the core has yet to be fully tested in hardware, its VHDL source code has been downloaded at least 150 times since Feb. (more…)

SAN JOSE, Calif. — (company press release) — Lynx Real-Time Systems, Inc., today announced delivery of Hewlett-Packard Company's (HP) ChaiVM, embedded virtual-machine technology on Lynx' BlueCat Linux operating system. BlueCat users can now field soft real-time Java applications in a wide range of products using the Java-compliant embedded virtual machine from HP. (more…)