Hi Bob,
Welcome!
On 5 Feb 2017, at 13:38, Bob Gastineau wrote:
Hello,
I am not sure if this is the correct forum for these types of
questions, so
please redirect me if necessary.
I have about 30 years of embedded product development experience and
the
last 20 years with protocol development and deployment for TCP/IP,
IPMB,
IrDA, HECI protocols with a strong emphasis on platform independence.
That sounds very relevant :-)
If you ever want to go the open-source route, rest assured Mynewt and
ASF more broadly are friendly places to work in, and we’d be excited
to have you.
After reviewing your web-site, it is obvious that your currently dev
team
leaders are experienced and have put together a solid dev process for
a BLE
protocol stack.
I have some business related questions:
1. Do you currently have end customers using the mynewt BLE stack?
How are
these end customers supported when incorporating mynewt technology
into
their products?
Yes. I know of a number of companies using the Mynewt protocol stack in
commercial products. Obviously, it’s up for the companies themselves
to come forward. As a FYI, Mynewt’s stack goes through PTS on 4.2
successfully.
2. Are there other protocol vendors that using the mynewt BLE stack as
a
rebranded BLE technology offering?
None that I’m aware of, the Bluetooth stack tends to go into products
more readily. Protocol vendors who resell the stack technology
typically want more robust profile support.
3. Since the mynewt BLE stack is licensed under Apache 2.0, deployment
of
the stack to end customers is essentially "free" with the exception of
product support ( if the customer is creating their own products ).
What
other business models are used to generate revenue for mynewt BLE
stack
technology?
It is entirely free: only if you need commercial support do you have to
buy it. The company I work for (Runtime - https://runtime.io/) offers
support for Mynewt, however, given that it’s an Apache project: we
should certainly not be the only ones. We (the project) want an
ecosystem of vendors to provide support around Apache Mynewt.
Sterling
