[plug] LINUX AT WORK.

[Brad Campbell]

Alex Polglaze wrote:
> I rec'd a copy of the Perth Business Catalogue the other day and the 
> last business advertised is The 3rd Eye.
> 
> They provide surveillance gear.
> 
> So what,
> 
> Right in the middle of the the ad is Tux and the words Linux based.
> 
> Thought you may be interested

You'd be surprised. I'd say at least 30% if not more of the embedded surveillance kit now has linux 
under the hood. It all really came about when a couple of cheap and nasty asian manufacturers 
started building bt878 based multi-channel video capture boards and people realised they worked 
almost out of the box with linux. This mob jumped on the opportunity and it's kinda grown from 
there. Probably 1 in 4 budget DVR system I see here are running linux. The higher end stuff is still 
based on XP or 2K embedded, but the trend is slowly changing.

There is a *very* large mainstream American CCTV manufacturer that has based almost all of their 
backend storage for the latest integrated digitial CCTV system on linux servers. I don't really 
shout that too loudly though as they've been at it for at least 3 years tho and it's still less 
reliable than a cheap Chinese win98 based DVR. They'll get there though.

Brad
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