From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Alberto Nava Message-ID: <3B578805.16F942C3@ncube.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20010719192828.47A611998A@mail.cse.psu.edu>, <200107192036.f6JKaVg17026@ducky.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] commercial deployment Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 08:59:39 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d17d9378-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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.