DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - August 3rd

[Bill Sconce]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 14:26:06 -0400
Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:

> The next regular monthly meeting of the DLSLUG will be held:
>                   Thursday, August 3rd, 7-9PM
> 7:00  Sign-in, networking  ...
> 7:20  "Taking Open Source, Enterprise-Class applications
>         off the desktop and into the Field"
>         Presented by Thomas Hall
>             Technical Account Manager, Wind River System


To pump up attendance at DLSLUG (is that sweet or what?)
Wind River Systems yesterday announced a significant Linux
contract win.

    By Stephen Shankland
    Staff Writer, CNET News.com
    Published: July 31, 2006, 6:00 AM PDT
    
    ... Boeing has awarded Wind River Systems a contract
    to embed its version of Linux into a new military aircraft,
    the software company said Monday.

    Boeing, the aerospace giant, will use Wind River's Linux
    to run surveillance and other mission computing tasks in
    the P-8A Multi-Mission Maritime Aircraft, a 737 modified
    for U.S. Navy uses such as finding submarines and other
    tasks, said Chip Downing, senior aerospace and defense
    marketing manager at Wind River.   ...
    
    Wind River also announced Monday that it has released
    300,000 lines of open-source code to Eclipse Foundation,
    a project for programming tools. ...
    
    smart phones ... "You can get a complete Linux distribution
    --kernel, driver, networking, file system--in about 4MB
    of memory," Seiler said.   ...
    
    http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-6100043.html?part=rss&tag=6100043&subj=news