[ros-users] Enterprise Version of ROS

[Willy Lambert]

I don't have a good experience of ROS, but I think that one of the big
requirement for large enterprise scale use is to separate jobs and
competencies. So that different people can work with different
knowledge of the application details. Maybe ROS already allow that,
but it is for sure a point of interest.

2012/4/12 Edwards, Shaun M. <sedwards at swri.org>:
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> We have been using ROS for some time now.  Projects that originally started
> as research are now maturing to the point where they need to be deployed.
> As we have started moving ROS from research applications to real world
> applications  it is becoming very clear that stability, safety, and
> reliability are of chief concerns to our customers.  For early adopters, we
> can alleviate these issues by standing behind the software as a whole,
> including ROS.  After all, sometimes it is easier to support an open
> software solution than it is a closed solution, since not all closed source
> software vendors live up to our customers expectations.
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> I would like to gauge community interest in creating a group whose purpose
> is to test, review, and certify robust, stable, and safe  Enterprise
> versions of ROS.  This may be a group of volunteers, but I fully expect that
> such a group would need significant funding, hopefully by commercial and
> other large users.  It is also possible that a company could be create for
> or step into this role, much like RedHat.
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> Is anybody open to this idea?  Is this a good idea?  Has anybody else
> seen/expressed this need?  Is ROS at the point where this makes sense?  What
> do you think?
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> Shaun Edwards
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> Senior Research Engineer
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> Manufacturing System Department
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> http://rosindustrial.swri.org/
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> Southwest Research Institute
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