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        Interview: Venturcom's real-time, benchmarking, and tools for XP Embedded

        Staff | Date: Oct 3, 2003 | Comments: 1


        In this interview, Microsoft spoke with Venturcom regarding its perpective on real-time, performance benchmarking, and tools for Windows XP Embedded. Venturcom, one of Microsoft's Windows Embedded Partner Gold-level members, provides software products and engineering services that complement and leverage the Windows operating environment to accelerate time-to-market for embedded systems and reduce the...

        total cost of ownership of Windows-based devices. From the introduction . . .

        "Microsoft: What is Venturcom's experience with real-time systems?

        Venturcom: Venturcom started operations in 1980 and focused on the UNIX operating system applications for real-time systems. For the first 15 years of operation, the company acted as a systems integrator and developed a real-time version of UNIX and tools to apply it to embedded applications. During 1995, Venturcom initiated a complete strategy shift and began to exclusively expend its efforts on Microsoft Windows NT as a platform for real-time, embedded applications. In 1998, Microsoft licensed Venturcom's Component Integrator, a development tool for configuring and building dedicated embedded Windows NT systems, to form the basis of the Microsoft Windows NT Embedded Toolkit . . ."

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