Re: MontaVista opinions?

cpope wrote:

MV was good in that I was able to get SOMETHING up quickly to show my bosses
but the overall value to the project is considerably less than the $30K we
paid for it. But that's not MV's fault, the real problem in my case is that
Xilinx has farmed out Linux to MV rather than doing it themselves. The
result is a "worst of both worlds" solution that's left my team wasting time
on stupid little things that have nothing to do with our product.

Do you think you'd have avoided this with another OS, for the same cost ?

Let's face it, the attraction of Linux is that it's cheap.
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