Embedded System has received numerous requests from customers for communications hardware powered by Linux for applications ranging from core communications functions to edge routers and switches to Embedded System wireless base stations. To meet these requirements, the company has partnered with popular Linux vendors such as Red Hat, to name only one example. Government customers faced with strict security regulations have been less willing to use Linux. But soon LynxOS should release BlueCat RT Linux, a version of Linux designed to comply with government regulations, which should change the mindset of government users toward Linux. It could also become popular in the commercial sector.
One of Verve's early clients is Cinebase Software, a Los Angeles- based software vendor that develops digital media management systems (DMMS) for post-production, graphics, special effects and military intelligence markets. Speaking to the versatility of Verve's technology, Cinebase CEO David Brunel noted: "The integration of Verve's powerful process workflow technology into our Media Management System enables us to deliver Embedded System Management with a capital 'M'. It also gives our customers the ability to manage their creative resources and media assets with reduced risk, cost, and complexity."Written 100% in Java, and offering full CORBA IDL supported interfaces, as well as native Java Embedded System interfaces, Verve is ideally suited for integration into a broad range of enterprise applications.
Embedded System part of the emerging workflow standards efforts underway at the Object Management Group, as a Sponsor of the Joint Submission to the OMG workflow Request For Proposal process. Verve, Inc. is also an active participant in Netscape's SWAP (Simple Workflow Access Protocol) standardization efforts and the Workflow Management Coalition's (WfMC), definition of interoperability standards for workflow engines
SBS has seen Linux Embedded System become increasingly more popular for commercial embedded applications such as medical imaging and supercomputing and clustering, as well as communications applications. But most often, the customers who are asking for Linux are those who work at the "edge" of the network or who are part of the IT department as opposed to system-level engineers. The main reason for this trend is the simple fact that because Linux is so popular, most network administrators and IT managers know how to use and manage it just as they would any other popular operating system such as Windows, for example. Ergo, most of them would prefer to use Embedded System products that run Linux than an embedded operating system they don't know how to use.
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