Re: Commercial RTOS to replace vxWorks

[Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov>]

john sinclair wrote:

> Are there any plans to move toward a less expensive RTOS replacement for
> vxWorks? I am interested in RTEMS but would also like to be able to
> use a commercial product (without having to put up with Wind River).

RTEMS is available as a commercial product - you can pay oarcorp for 
support if you don't want to do everything yourself.  Currently that's the 
leading alternative to vxWorks for IOCs with real hardware interfaces, 
although I'm personally interested in Jaluna, an open source (but also 
commercially supported) derivative of ChorusOS.  It shouldn't be very hard 
to write the OSI routines to get EPICS running on Jaluna, which provides 
full Posix realtime support and a choice of 3 memory models, although 
nobody's doing this yet. http://www.jaluna.com/

- Andrew
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