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Re: Re: Is eCos project still alive?


As a embedded-systems consultant, I've been using eCos for several years, and I love it. I've used it for my own development - test apps and demos - but I have never been able to sell a single customer on using the OS for a project. When a potential customer (usually a manager type) has a look, those things do stand out: it *looks* old and out of date, on first pass. Most don't seem to get past poking around the web page.

For more technically sophisticated customers, when 2.0 first appeared, it literally took ten minutes to download the code, and get a sample app running on an old PC. Now when I tell a customer to take it for a test drive, the setup gets involved, with pieces from several places.

I try to tell them to look closer, but by that time, they've already chosen something else. From my experience, the current state of the project doesn't seem to help sell it.

Frank

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