pSOS 2.5 for X86 - Can one still buy this? -- Time to switch to BLUNK MICROSYSTEMS TargetOS ..
Louis Meadows
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"VirtualSean" <Virtu...@FastDial.net> wrote in message
news:b2a47fb1.0209...@posting.google.com...
> Folks,
>
> Accepting the fact that it's EOL'ed and that as of next week, only
> email support will be available from the vendor - and only for 1 more
> year at that - if one wants to (still) buy pSOSystem 2.5 for X86:
>
> 1. Will the vendor sell that?
>
> 2. If so, what is the cost?
>
> 3. If it's used commercially, what's the lic / dist cost(s)?
>
> 4. What will the vendor wrangle for in terms of maintanence
> charges?
>
>
> Thank you.
>
> --
> VirtualSean
>
Ken Lee
Sorry to jump in here, but I seem to have missed the original posting.
> "VirtualSean" <Virtu...@FastDial.net> wrote in message
>news:b2a47fb1.0209...@posting.google.com...
>> Folks,
>>
>> Accepting the fact that it's EOL'ed and that as of next week, only
>> email support will be available from the vendor - and only for 1 more
>> year at that - if one wants to (still) buy pSOSystem 2.5 for X86:
>>
>> 1. Will the vendor sell that?
>>
>> 2. If so, what is the cost?
>>
>> 3. If it's used commercially, what's the lic / dist cost(s)?
>>
>> 4. What will the vendor wrangle for in terms of maintanence
>> charges?
I presume that the original poster wants to continue on this tack
because of in-house pSOS expertise and/or new products based on
pre-existing pSOS systems.
Basically I think you'll be beating a dead horse and the decision to
do something positive about it should be done now rather than hoping
for any glimmer of pSOS support in the future. We made the decision to
move to another RTOS (from pSOS) 3 years ago and have never looked
back. However to make the transition less stressful we used Nucleus
Plus with their TransKit. TransKit is a pSOS API. Thus we were able to
readily port our existing pSOS application over to a new CPU and new
RTOS.
Mapusoft Technologies has taken over the Nucleus TransKit and made it
into a solid product, OSChanger. I'd give them a try -- see
www.mapusoft.com.
Please note that I have no financial association with Mapusoft, except
that I worked closely with the highly competent software engineers in
the development of TransKit for use with our product.
Ken.
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VirtualSean
To be clear, I am not (typically) given to beating dead horses, and
your point (Ken) is indeed well taken.
While we move forward with new product development, we have a need to
maintain our pSOS-based product for another 6 ms .. 1y. There are a
number of very compelling reasons (from our, perhaps idiosyncratic,
position) to *upgrade* to 2.5.
The other Next Gen system has already been chosen. If the product in
it's pSOS clothing has a year of life left in it, 2.5 looks *far*
"better" for a number of reasons.
--
VirtualSean
postm...@noname.com (Ken Lee) wrote in message news:<3dab4a06....@News.CIS.DFN.DE>...