I can see that, but as for what we use ( RedBoot ). customers love it. >From my experiences, if it does what it's supposed to do, who cares how old it is. How many folks use X11?
On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 15:06 -0500, Frank Pagliughi wrote: > 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 out of date, on first pass.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 > -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss
