Wind River and Kontron have agreed a deal which will see the
embedded systems supplier selling Wind River’s VxWorks and Linux
operating systems in to the industrial, medical, military and
aerospace, transportation, and networking markets.
The inclusion of Linux in the deal highlights its growing
importance in the embedded market and in the companies'
strategies.
Kontron also joins the
Wind River Partner Validation Program, initially with its
nanoETXexpress-SP module validated for use with VxWorks 6.7.
According to Dirk Finstel, chief technology officer at Kontron
AG: “In parallel, Kontron will continue to leverage its strategic
relationship with Wind River to deliver tightly integrated
solutions that help reduce our customers’ total cost of ownership.
The inclusion of the Kontron nanoETXexpress-SP in the Wind River
Partner Validation Program, including optimized VxWorks 6.7
platform evaluation in the box, is a good example.”
“I am also pleased that Kontron’s nanoETXexpress-SP is the first
embedded module to be listed with our Partner Validation Program,”
said Roger Williams, v-p strategic alliances at Wind River.
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Under terms of the distribution agreement,
Kontron will be able to resell
VxWorks production licenses, and also agrees to work with Wind
River to proliferate Wind River Linux for use by joint
customers.
Wind River will continue
to provide hardware and software tools, development environments,
source code and support contracts for joint customers.