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Zan Lynx wrote:

>On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 15:51, Bill Wimsatt wrote:
>
>>No comments yet, but I thought this group would care to comment on the
>>following...
>>
>>"..embedded system manufacturers on average take 76% longer and spend
>>over 300% more to develop and bring to market embedded systems using
>>Embedded Linux as compared to Microsoft Windows Embedded..."
>>
>>From: http://www.embeddedforecast.com/
>>
>
>This could mean that only the serious and expensive projects use Linux,
>while the cheap toy projects use Windows. :-)
>
>Are they comparing similar projects, or all projects?  Has anyone
>actually read the white paper?
>


There's a fairly literate comment on this on the Register

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/31804.html

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