Portability Made Possible - Migrating Legacy Operating Systems Software

As an embedded systems software professional, it's your job to develop software that enables your company to gain competitive advantage, by moving applications nimbly among a wide variety of hardware and software platforms.

The solutions developed by operating systems vendors to ease the burden of porting existing applications & software that was designed to run on operating systems such as VxWorks often present a myriad of conflicting and divergent APIs, making it unnecessarily hard to develop portable software.

Since your role is not to wrestle continuously with portability details, it's worthwhile to consider how to ensure that the OS development strategy you select on your next commercial embedded project will significantly reduce costs and shorten product development cycles.

This session will be of interest to development managers in automotive, medical, industrial automation, and networking. Attend this technical seminar to learn more about:

• The Importance of Migration
• Migration Benefits and Approaches
• Operating System Differences
  • Microkernel vs. monolithic architecture- design implications
  • POSIX vs. proprietary APIs
  • Device driver portability
• Planning strategies
• Emulation library
• Porting issues

Join QNX Software Systems for a technical web seminar on Migrating Legacy Operating Systems Software. Sebastien Marineau-Mes, Senior Networking Architect and Development Manager, QNX Software Systems, discusses market adoption factors and explores migration service strategies that enables customers to port legacy software in a phased manner, allowing the migration process to be planned & controlled for optimum execution. He also discusses the issues and challenges on migrating, the benefits and approaches, operating system differences, and planning strategies.

Shiv Nagarajan - Core OS Software Developer, QNX Software Systems, then walks through practical porting experiences that large tier one companies are often faced with, and how they are able to have a smooth porting transition, and lower their total cost of ownership and investment protection.

Joining Sebastien and Shiv is Marty Fletcher, Sr. Director, Alliances from klockwork who discusses the value that klockwork can bring to the porting process.

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