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.