From joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com Wed Dec 5 22:21:45 2007 From: joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com (Joel Sherrill) Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:21:45 -0600 Subject: RTEMS Support Services Message-ID: <47572479.6090603@oarcorp.com> Hi, I thought with the discussion of improvements to RTEMS that requires touching every BSP, it would be a good time to remind everyone that this type of maintenance activity is paid for by a combination of + RTEMS Support Contracts (RSC) + RTEMS Application Assistance (RAA) + RTEMS Directed Development (RDD). + RTEMS application development RSC follows the traditional support model for free software. OAR provides timely responses to questions and problems you encounter. With RAA, OAR becomes an extended part of your team. We are on-call to help you with whatever issue arises in your application. For example, we may help with application design, application code reviews, or tuning. With RDD, you are directly sponsoring improvements to a specific area of RTEMS that you choose. Examples of this type of activity have included algorithmic improvements, file system improvements, API additions, size improvements, tool improvements, and improvements in the test suites. Basically if it is on the wish list, you are just making sure the right engineers are getting to pay attention to it now and full time. I can't encourage you all enough to consider RTEMs support services. We are tidying up RTEMS 4.8.0 now and that takes effort to do right. With your assistance, RTEMS 4.9.0 could be done next summer with another set of impressive improvements. But that takes engineering time. I hate to post a marketing pitch to the mailing lists but everyone needs to remember that if you want myself and other core RTEMS developers to work full-time on RTEMS, this is what it takes. Thanks and remember RTEMS in your budget plans. --joel From joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com Wed Dec 5 22:21:45 2007 From: joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com (Joel Sherrill) Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:21:45 -0600 Subject: RTEMS Support Services Message-ID: <47572479.6090603@oarcorp.com> Hi, I thought with the discussion of improvements to RTEMS that requires touching every BSP, it would be a good time to remind everyone that this type of maintenance activity is paid for by a combination of + RTEMS Support Contracts (RSC) + RTEMS Application Assistance (RAA) + RTEMS Directed Development (RDD). + RTEMS application development RSC follows the traditional support model for free software. OAR provides timely responses to questions and problems you encounter. With RAA, OAR becomes an extended part of your team. We are on-call to help you with whatever issue arises in your application. For example, we may help with application design, application code reviews, or tuning. With RDD, you are directly sponsoring improvements to a specific area of RTEMS that you choose. Examples of this type of activity have included algorithmic improvements, file system improvements, API additions, size improvements, tool improvements, and improvements in the test suites. Basically if it is on the wish list, you are just making sure the right engineers are getting to pay attention to it now and full time. I can't encourage you all enough to consider RTEMs support services. We are tidying up RTEMS 4.8.0 now and that takes effort to do right. With your assistance, RTEMS 4.9.0 could be done next summer with another set of impressive improvements. But that takes engineering time. I hate to post a marketing pitch to the mailing lists but everyone needs to remember that if you want myself and other core RTEMS developers to work full-time on RTEMS, this is what it takes. Thanks and remember RTEMS in your budget plans. --joel From joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com Wed Dec 5 22:21:45 2007 From: joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com (Joel Sherrill) Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:21:45 -0600 Subject: RTEMS Support Services Message-ID: <47572479.6090603@oarcorp.com> Hi, I thought with the discussion of improvements to RTEMS that requires touching every BSP, it would be a good time to remind everyone that this type of maintenance activity is paid for by a combination of + RTEMS Support Contracts (RSC) + RTEMS Application Assistance (RAA) + RTEMS Directed Development (RDD). + RTEMS application development RSC follows the traditional support model for free software. OAR provides timely responses to questions and problems you encounter. With RAA, OAR becomes an extended part of your team. We are on-call to help you with whatever issue arises in your application. For example, we may help with application design, application code reviews, or tuning. With RDD, you are directly sponsoring improvements to a specific area of RTEMS that you choose. Examples of this type of activity have included algorithmic improvements, file system improvements, API additions, size improvements, tool improvements, and improvements in the test suites. Basically if it is on the wish list, you are just making sure the right engineers are getting to pay attention to it now and full time. I can't encourage you all enough to consider RTEMs support services. We are tidying up RTEMS 4.8.0 now and that takes effort to do right. With your assistance, RTEMS 4.9.0 could be done next summer with another set of impressive improvements. But that takes engineering time. I hate to post a marketing pitch to the mailing lists but everyone needs to remember that if you want myself and other core RTEMS developers to work full-time on RTEMS, this is what it takes. Thanks and remember RTEMS in your budget plans. --joel From joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com Wed Dec 5 22:21:45 2007 From: joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com (Joel Sherrill) Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:21:45 -0600 Subject: RTEMS Support Services Message-ID: <47572479.6090603@oarcorp.com> Hi, I thought with the discussion of improvements to RTEMS that requires touching every BSP, it would be a good time to remind everyone that this type of maintenance activity is paid for by a combination of + RTEMS Support Contracts (RSC) + RTEMS Application Assistance (RAA) + RTEMS Directed Development (RDD). + RTEMS application development RSC follows the traditional support model for free software. OAR provides timely responses to questions and problems you encounter. With RAA, OAR becomes an extended part of your team. We are on-call to help you with whatever issue arises in your application. For example, we may help with application design, application code reviews, or tuning. With RDD, you are directly sponsoring improvements to a specific area of RTEMS that you choose. Examples of this type of activity have included algorithmic improvements, file system improvements, API additions, size improvements, tool improvements, and improvements in the test suites. Basically if it is on the wish list, you are just making sure the right engineers are getting to pay attention to it now and full time. I can't encourage you all enough to consider RTEMs support services. We are tidying up RTEMS 4.8.0 now and that takes effort to do right. With your assistance, RTEMS 4.9.0 could be done next summer with another set of impressive improvements. But that takes engineering time. I hate to post a marketing pitch to the mailing lists but everyone needs to remember that if you want myself and other core RTEMS developers to work full-time on RTEMS, this is what it takes. Thanks and remember RTEMS in your budget plans. --joel