I'd like to know more about what "embedded" really means here. Is it called embedded because it has all components it needs to run inside, meaning it's own web server (and not reliant on Windows IIS), or other things like .Net frameworks, or SQL, Apache or Gnome? Or is it embedded because it provides source code for compiling towards almost any host system? Or both? It's just the term embedded gets thrown around a lot, but no real clarification on what it means.Thanks.
New VMS 'Orchid' Released
Published Apr 03, 2014 04:00 AM
New VMSes are fairly rare. However, one VMS provider, IP Configure, is releasing a brand new VMS, called "Orchid [link no longer available]".
The company is touting it as 'built to run anywhere'.
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Comments (4)
Luis Carmona
Apr 03, 2014
R. Cortland Tompkins, PhD
Apr 03, 2014Luis, I am VP of Engineering at ipConfigure. Orchid is truly embedded -- all recording, processing, management, file serving, RTSP serving, etc. happens on the embedded device. It does not rely on an external web server, it serves up its user interface using a lightweight web server that runs as a part of Orchid. To your second point, Orchid is a C++ codebase that can be built for nearly any POSIX-like system.
Luis Carmona
Apr 03, 2014Using an "external" server for a service, for say something like serviing up web interface, wasn't exactly what I was wondering. I assumed everything ran local on the one host. Unless you mean not external to the Orchid program (like a 3rd party software program), but native to Orchid program itself...?
In any case, an excellant summary and I appreciate it. Thanks!
R. Cortland Tompkins, PhD
Apr 03, 2014Luis, the web server runs as a thread within the Orchid process. As you said it's neither external in the sense of a separate server, nor external in the sense of a separate software package like Apache or Nginx that needs to be installed.