In this column at Embedded.com, EE Times editor Bernard Cole examines the significance of recent announcements by Wind River and Green Hills regarding vertical market software bundles for the embedded systems market, comparing it to the importance of… the availability of source code from Embedded Linux vendors and some RTOS companies. Cole writes . . .

“Several companies with open source Linux OSes, such as Monta Vista Software [SIC], which allow complete access to the kernel's source code, and proprietary RTOSes vendors (some of which also allow access) are jockeying for a lead position in accelerating this platformization. In November, both Wind River Systems and Green Hills Software introduced 'superbundles' targeted, in part, at the embedded networking space as bid to play a role in this platformization . . .”

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