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Telecoms equipment can be cool (honestly)

Many years ago, at a previous company, I spent my days writingassembler code for the 68302 processor and watched enviously as other(more fortunate) engineers wrote "modern" C++...

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“Hugging it Out” with Open Source…

Congratulations Microsoft.Responding to your community? Embracing an open source model in anon-trivial way? These are big, admirable steps I thought I would neverpersonally witness...

18 years 10 months ago

POSIX Profiles

Well, as work caught up with me I missed the Lisbon experience, butapparently it was raining there anyway – so it was just like home! As I mentioned profiles in my last blog, I...

18 years 10 months ago

Four Commercials

Four commercials running across India caught my attention. The first one is a TV commercial which shows a couple of tennis players playing over the rooftops and jumping off the...

18 years 10 months ago

Software Core Values

What core values do you use when you design software? For VxWorks,we defined the core values to be small footprint, scalable and modularfunctionality, high performance, low latency...

18 years 10 months ago

Is standards based telecom equipment coming of age?

At the beginning of each day I try to spend a little time readingpress releases and news items from the various industry sectors I takean interest in. As I read I often find...

18 years 10 months ago

Linux in Aerospace and Defense

In a recent blog entry, John Bruggeman considered the role of Linux in Automotiveapplications. He discussed the blurring of the distinction between carinfotainment systems and...

18 years 10 months ago

Microsoft versus Linux in Automotive Industry

Thanks to everyone for the feedback on my last blog “ Linux and Automotive: Reaching a Tipping Point.” I’m really interested in this topic and all of the response I got inspired me...

18 years 10 months ago

Rad Chips

In a recent EEtimes Article (requires login) NASA has begun looking for a suitable processor for continued manned space exploration. Current space robots ( MRO, etc) run BAEsystem...

18 years 10 months ago

Mapping Out The Future with TARDIS

I’ve just read a interesting article – ‘Mapping Out The Future With TARDIS‘ in the journal Jane’s International Defence Review (Volume 39, November 2006, page 29 Upgrade Update)...

18 years 10 months ago