IBM may acquire embedded software powerhouse Wind River, according to rumors originating in the blogosphere, and a statement issued by Wind River competitor Enea. Wind River stock yesterday rose about a dollar per share, or 10 percent, in advance of the rumor hitting. Wind River has denied the rumor, however.
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Wind River has an engineering support staff of about 300, Bruggeman told LinuxDevices earlier this month. IBM's global staff numbers 350,000, including engineering teams in 170 countries, it says.
Both IBM and Wind River have been integrally involved with Eclipse, a cross-platform framework for cross-vendor tools integration. IBM originally donated Eclipse to the open source community, as part of a billion dollar investment in open source. More recently, Wind River has driven the Device Software Development Project, one of a handful of top-level Eclipse projects.
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