IBM acquires Wind River?

IBM can establish a strong presence in the embedded operating system market with the acquisition of Wind River Systems , which is now in a bad financial situation. However, according to reports, the acquisition negotiations are already underway .

Wind River is a California-based company with 1,300 employees that develops operating systems for embedded applications, mainly for the aerospace, defense and automotive industries using Linux and its proprietary OS VxWorks.

Neither Wind River, nor IBM did not give any public comments about the possible deal. However, the deal still believes - this will help IBM expand beyond its core markets.

“IBM sells its services and products in different markets, it’s not just servers,” said Clabby Analytics President Joe Clabby. “For example, IBM sells millions of POWER chips to game console manufacturers. It is likely that IBM has identified several opportunities to expand the market for small, intelligent, embedded Linux systems. ”
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By the way, there were times when the Wind River and IBM worked together. Wind River is a member of Power.org, IBM's industrial forum for promoting the architecture of the Power processors. Wind River is also an IBM client using products such as Rational ClearCase. IBM also confirms that its PowerPC chips will work with the Wind River VxWorks developer kit.

We will wait for statements from company officials ...