The Arm software specialist helps manufacturers escape ageing code and keep products useful. Now it is changing its own business model, pairing paid engineering with a free collaboration forum.
Codethink built a consultancy by fixing the plumbing beneath cars, medical devices and financial systems. Its bolder project is to make open-source software acceptable where a bug can become a safety case.
Wind River put an operating system on Mars, watched it stumble, and helped patch it from Earth. Four decades later, its business still rests on the same promise: make complicated machines behave when the deadline is literal.