Hi Jordan, > Next, in the Pro-audio sector, you have Muse Research who make the > "Recepter". Which is a hardware VST host. That's just one example of many in the pro audio sector (that we know about, since the companies involved aren't required to disclose their use of GNU/Linux - it's a competitive advantage, so they have a disincentive to do so). Several flagship audio mixing and recording systems use the Linux kernel, including the Harrison Xrange: http://www.harrisonconsoles.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=51 and the Midas XL8: http://www.midasconsoles.com/xl8.php If you have been to see a Hollywood movie, or attended a stadium gig on a rock band's world tour, you have almost certainly been listening to audio mixed on a Harrison or Midas console - these companies are at the top of their game. RT-Linux provides significant advantage for these companies over proprietary RTOS products because of time-to-market, not licence costs: there are many audio software components available for re-use, leaving the integrator to write the last parts of the code. There's also knowledge transfer from the Linux HPC sector - for example, the Xrange uses up to 120 Opteron CPUs, so it's hardly a 'desktop' system. You don't get that combination of high performance and reliable, re-usable source code with any other platform, RT or otherwise. Licence fees for proprietary software aren't the big deal for companies selling a relatively small number of expensive products. I think people get confused with consumer products like mobile phones, where it's supposedly all about volume. Actually, I think the independence of OEM's from proprietary software vendors has more to do with it. Microsoft has significant lock-in with consumers, and yet it still can't persuade people to buy Windows phones :-) Cheers! Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
