Product category: Embedded Software and Operating Systems
News Release from: Wind River Systems | Subject: BSD/OS 4.3
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 18 March 2002
Unix-based operating system expands servers
Wind River has released version 4.3 of BSD/OS, the company's commercial Unix-based operating system, and has oulined roadmap plans for the product
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Wind River has released version 4.3 of BSD/OS, the company's commercial Unix-based operating system, and detailed roadmap plans for the product. Version 4.3 of BSD/OS is available now, and continues the operating system's heritage of providing superior features and performance for enterprise and Internet service provider (ISP) servers, server appliances and other embedded server-like devices.
Future releases of the operating system will target server appliances, security and traffic management appliances, network attached storage devices, and telecomms application processing blades as part of Wind River's strategy to provide end-to-end development platforms across the entire spectrum of OEM and embedded market segments.
Wind River is currently developing the next-generation release of BSD/OS - version 5.0 - for purpose-built or embedded applications that require a robust Unix-based operating system.
BSD 5.0, to be made available in the first half of 2002, will provide improved performance and exceptional throughput with a new symmetrical multiprocessing (SMP) kernel that offers fine-grain locking.
In addition to continuing its superior support for Intel Architecture processors, the next release will bring BSD/OS to the PowerPC architecture, with support for the Motorola MPC7400 and IBM PowerPC 750 platforms.
Board support packages for Wind River's PPMC7400 and PPMC750 boards will be available for developers desiring an off-the-shelf solution.
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Wind River's VisionWare bootloader and the Vision tool suite will also be available for developers using BSD/OS on custom PowerPC boards.
Although BSD support for Intel architecture and PowerPC will enable BSD/OS to span an important class of applications, Wind River will consider further expansion of processor coverage in order to meet customer needs on a continuing basis.
In addition, future releases will integrate Wind River's Tornado integrated development environment (IDE) with BSD/OS.
This will enable developers to build BSD/OS-based applications with the same award-winning development tools already used by thousands of software engineers.
"This release delivers on Wind River's commitment to current BSD/OS customers with many advanced features and lays the groundwork for more embedded capabilities", said Dave Fraser, group vice president and general manager of Wind River's Networks business unit.
"BSD/OS complements Wind River's operating system portfolio and extends our reach into new application areas beyond our traditional VxWorks and VxWorks/AE strongholds.
Coupled with our products and services, BSD/OS is a technically superior Unix-based platform with a commercially oriented licence".
BSD/OS 5.0 and other future releases of the product will target servers, server appliances, and purpose-built server applications, as well as non-real-time embedded systems that require a full-featured Unix-based operating system.
Such systems often have high degrees of software complexity and need the capability to run applications developed for Unix-style operating systems.
Wind River's VxWorks real-time operating system will continue to be Wind River's core offering for embedded applications that require real-time, deterministic performance and constrained memory footprints.
BSD/OS 4.3 is available now.
More information on future releases of BSD/OS will be announced later in 2002.
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