The Beginning Of Litigation Sometimes Marks the End Of Innovation

The RTOS market is always interesting, you really need a scorecard to know who's coming and going and who's partnering with whom.

Within the last couple of years, Green Hills went from being a vendor of compilers and software development tools in the Embedded Software Market (meaning they worked WITH Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) vendors) to offering their own RTOS with some significant enhancements for the Aerospace market.

It looks like one of their premier RTOS vendor 'partners' is somewhat upset over this and is doing the only thing they can do. Being intimately familiar with Wind River's attitude towards 'partners' (think Microsoft and PC vendors as portrayed in the media) I'm not really suprised at this, though at best, it seems like a delaying or FUD move intended to grease the skids on whatever key sale Wind River and Green Hills are both pursuing at the moment.

Those who can't innovate ...