On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
On Monday 05 January 2004 02:40, Micha Feigin wrote:
Just a point in the opposite direction. Depending on the target of your product you may need to get it certified, which can sometimes be a lot easier to do with name brands (one reason a company I know chose to implement their system using IBM computers which cost several thousand NIS more but saved them several tens of thousands in certification tests).
That one reason in certain cases there is an advantage for vxworks in comparison to linux in the embedded market. On the other hand thats a case where you would be willing to pay the big bucks to a qualified programmer who can properly prove his/her design rather then go to the kid next door even if she is a wizkid who has just writen a M$ word replacement that actually works ;-)
Don't confuse brand name vs. generic with open vs. closed source software. The simple answer would be to pay for a certified open source solution and in the mebdded market there are several.
I'm not confusing the to. Its certified vs. Uncertified. And if you will read what you just wrote is that you can pay for certified open source solution, and in this case the open source means that you get the source but you may have to recertify it if you change it which kind of beats the point of buying it in the first place.
*Any* change to *any* software requires either recertification or applicable change management, no matter if it's open or closed source.
If it's closed source you are dependent on the vendor or black box testing. You are *not*, however, exempt from liability (This is according to the FDA 21CFR11, other certification or regulatory requirements very).
Also in most cases what you will get is something which is partly open source and partly closed source.
> Cheers,
Gilad
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