Recommendation needed

[gregory.menke at gsfc.nasa.gov]

 > > i want to use RTEMS and my boss says "no one uses this RTOS in a serious
 > > industrial application" (machine control). Please give me a mail with
 > > your industrial application and your confidence of RTEMS to convince my
 > > boss. thank you.
 > 
 > RTEMS is being used to control the Canadian Light Source (300 MeV
 > electron linear accelerator, 300 MeV->2.9 GeV booster ring, 2.9 GeV
 > synchrotron storage ring) synchrotron light source.  I'd say that is a
 > pretty serious (quasi-)industrial application.  See www.cls.usask.ca for
 > more information.

Its been selected as the embedded OS for an upcoming satellite
constellation tech development mission called ST-5.  Our group is
doing the bsp, http://osgroup.gsfc.nasa.gov:8000 has some detail.

Gregm