commercial product (small quantities) using pandaboard

[qt next]

Hi,

For my small company, pandaboard is a good opportunity to sell an arm board with embedded software in very small quantities (1 to 100 ..) It seems that it's permit to use a pandaboard in a commercial product ? Is it planned to change that ? I am sure that there is a lot of small company who will wants to use pandaboard in a commercial product...

[Vladimir Pantelic]

You might have to take long term availability into account. If you buy 100
boards today, that might be fine, but if you need another 100 in a year it
could be an issue.

[qt next]

Yes you are right ... but I think there is a niche market to sell ready to use board like pandaboard for small quantities with commercial support (availability,...) 

2010/11/2 Vladimir Pantelic <vlad...@gmail.com>

[Vladimir Pantelic]

qt next wrote:
> Yes you are right ... but I think there is a niche market to sell ready
> to use board like pandaboard for small quantities with commercial
> support (availability,...)

some company might pick up the panda design and manufacture boards with
long term availability and support. but it will not be at the current
$174 price point....

> 2010/11/2 Vladimir Pantelic <vlad...@gmail.com <mailto:vlad...@gmail.com>>

[qt next]

even more expensive .. it should be a good opportunity for small companies ...

2010/11/2 Vladimir Pantelic <vlad...@gmail.com>

[trevj]

On Nov 2, 9:12 am, Vladimir Pantelic <vlado...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You might have to take long term availability into account. If you buy 100
> boards today, that might be fine, but if you need another 100 in a year it
> could be an issue.

Indeed. And if the open source design is used to develop a similar
product, the TI subsidy won't generally be available.
http://www.omapzoom.org/wiki/PandaBoard_FAQ#Is_TI_subsidizing_the_PandaBoard.3F

[Vladimir Pantelic]

that was in fact what I was hinting at :)