Re: [9fans] commercial deployment

[Alberto Nava <beto@ncube.com>]

Mike Haertel wrote:

> an acquaintance of mine from the university now works for a company
> that is using Plan 9 to do high performance media servers (some video
> on demand kind of thing, i think).  they were using the 1995 edition,
> which they commercially licensed from bell labs.
>
> they needed a real time OS; they looked at Linux at the time (a few
> years ago, not sure exactly when) and decided that fixing all the
> problems to suit their needs would be too hard given how much of a
> bloated pig Linux had become, and so they decided to start with Plan 9
> and fix it up with the real-time features they needed.
>
> i don't know the name of the company or whether they're still in
> business.  it is/was located somewhere in in the Portland, OR area.  i
> heard all this when i ran into the fellow in a restuarant back in
> January or so, so it seems likely they're still around.

The company is called ncube (remember hypecubes...),
http://www.ncube.com

We've done quite a lot of work on Plan9 to get it to work pretty
nicely as a video server OS: copy-less IO, distributed kernel resident
volume manager
and file system, new IP stack, async read and writes, real-time
scheduling,etc.

I'm not sure if we have position open right now, but if you're interested
please check
with pkiddle@ncube.com.