Re: [ECOS] Re: Is eCos project still alive?

[Brian Austin <brian.austin@cirrus.com>]

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 out of date, on first pass.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
> 



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