EXECUTIVE BLOG

GNAT PRO ADA Version 21.6: AdaCore Partners with Lynx to Deliver Ada Language Support Alongside the LYNX MOSA.ic Software Framework

LYNX Software Technologies: Mar 16, 2023 2:00:00 AM

AdaCore has partnered closely with Lynx to deliver Ada language support alongside its LYNX MOSA.ic software framework that comprises a real-time operating system (LynxOS-178), Linux and hypervisor... Read More

Electronica: Big Tradeshows Are Back!

Ian Ferguson | VP Marketing: Nov 22, 2022 11:55:29 AM

I was lucky enough to be in Germany last week for Electronica, a massive show held every two years. This year, according to the organizers, around seventy thousand people attended the four-day event.... Read More

Lynx and Rust

Ian Ferguson | VP Marketing: Nov 2, 2022 7:30:00 AM

The Military and Aerospace industries are facing a diverse set of challenges right now. If I were to sum it up, there is a desire for the US to drive innovation at a pace unmatched by our rivals. As... Read More

Cybersecurity in the Connected Aircraft

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Arun Subbarao | VP Engineering: Oct 18, 2022 9:00:00 AM

In early October 2022, I participated in a panel discussion at the Aerospace IT Conference in Chicago. The panel topic was “Cybersecurity in the Connected Aircraft”. The lively discussion that ensued... Read More

Packages Taking to the Skies

Ian Ferguson | VP Marketing: Aug 23, 2022 9:00:00 AM

We are approaching the time when delivery of packages could be via the sky as opposed to via the street. According to McKinsey, there could be 1.5 million deliveries made this way during 2022. This... Read More

One Month After Our Acquisition by OceanSound Partners – What’s Ahead?

Ian Ferguson | VP Marketing: Jul 29, 2022 12:08:42 PM

WHAT'S ON THE HORIZON FOR LYNX? It always irks me when a company acquires another one and promptly announces that nothing will change. Of course, it will! It is simply a case of when and how much.... Read More

Unikernels; A Technology Full of Promise for Mission Critical Systems

Ian Ferguson | VP Marketing: Jun 6, 2022 9:00:00 AM

What is a Unikernel? Virtualization technology, whereby multiple operating systems can be run on shared hardware, is extremely well understood if somewhat inefficient in its use of resources. The... Read More

Coming of Age of the Mission Critical Edge

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Pavan Singh | VP Product Management: May 24, 2022 10:50:46 AM

The Mission Critical Edge (MCE) is at a transitionary or “coming of age” stage in its lifecycle. Note that this is a Lynx term that I had coined two years ago. If you see references to “Mission... Read More

New Partnership with Google and Growing Ecosystem

Ian Ferguson | VP Marketing: Apr 27, 2022 11:43:53 AM

As Voltaire once said (and Peter Parker’s uncle in Spiderman repeated), “With great power comes great responsibility.” The data that can be gleaned from sensors is incredibly powerful, however, with... Read More

Cybersecurity Costs of Remote Work

Ian Ferguson | VP Marketing: Nov 17, 2021 4:39:58 PM

As the world enters a new era of remote and hybrid work, the risks to network security become more complex. Over the last 18 months, the pandemic has created an unprecedented shift in the modern... Read More

A Long Road Ahead for Autonomous Vehicles

Lynx Software Technologies: Jun 14, 2021 10:05:20 AM

This spring, Lynx Software issued a survey to gauge consumer interest in autonomous vehicles and their confidence in their safety. The findings? Despite one in four respondents admitting to breaking... Read More

Welcome, Microsoft, to Lynx's Partner Ecosystem

Ian Ferguson | VP Marketing: Apr 20, 2021 10:48:14 AM

It was December 24, 2019 and a few of us were gathered in the Lynx office to contemplate some strategic initiatives for the year ahead. It is so challenging inside a small company to find the head... Read More

5 Ways Your Company’s Cybersecurity is at Risk and How to Fix It

Ian Ferguson | VP Marketing: Mar 10, 2021 7:24:40 AM

Lynx Software recently issued a survey (link to the PR) that found that 36% of Americans have either been impacted themselves or known someone that has been impacted by a cybersecurity attack since... Read More

CoreAVI; A pursuit towards the intersection of hardware and software

Ian Ferguson | VP Marketing: Mar 2, 2021 10:04:43 AM

Lynx Software Technologies has collaborated closely with CoreAVI for many years. The most visible result of that partnership has been the panoramic cockpit display for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.... Read More

Growing the Mission Critical Edge Ecosystem: Welcome Eurotech!

Ian Ferguson | VP Marketing: Dec 1, 2020 2:28:23 PM

In the middle of 2020, Lynx Software Technologies announced its first product that was specifically focused on industrial use cases. The value chain and set of technologies needed to deploy secure,... Read More

Open Source—“When” and “If” in mission critIcal systems

Ian Ferguson | VP Marketing: Nov 20, 2020 11:50:13 AM

Earlier in November I was speaking as part of a track on cybersecurity at (Virtual) Electronica, a tradeshow held every two years in Munich. One of the questions related to when open source... Read More

Airworthiness and Multicore: Intel, Mercury, and Lynx webinar

Ian Ferguson | VP Marketing: Nov 9, 2020 10:30:32 AM

Lynx Software Technologies was invited, along with Mercury Systems (a partner), to participate in a webinar sponsored by Intel that focused on harnessing multicore processors for use in mission... Read More

From Mission Critical Embedded Systems to the Mission Critical Edge

Flavio Bonomi: Sep 18, 2020 10:48:08 AM

Across a range of industries, there is a broad understanding that the deployment of modern computing resources with cloud native models of software lifecycle management will become ever more... Read More

Disrupt or be disrupted

Ian Ferguson | VP Marketing: Aug 18, 2020 12:21:21 PM

A number of our recent customer design wins have been where Lynx Software Technologies has ousted competitors from prior versions of those products. We were not in the prior versions of the Joint... Read More

August company update

Ian Ferguson | VP Marketing: Aug 3, 2020 8:24:29 AM

One of the regular topics on LinkedIn and, indeed, in business topics, is about the need for small businesses to focus. I have always struggled with this over my career. In the... Read More

Secure Platform for IIOT

Ian Ferguson | VP Marketing: Jul 15, 2020 9:49:04 AM

In May 2020, I wrote a couple of blogs about what we were starting to hear about in terms of use cases for our separation kernel hypervisor, LynxSecure, in Industrial IoT (IIoT) applications. I... Read More

THE COVID-19 EFFECT; INCREASED INTEREST IN SECURE LAPTOPS

Ian Ferguson | VP Marketing: Jul 9, 2020 12:59:48 PM

Back in March, I wrote a blog about secure laptops based on some work Lynx was doing in this area. I committed to providing some ongoing updates via our website in due course. At the time, this was... Read More

Multicore Certification: Not Losing Track of Our Avionics Heritage

Ian Ferguson | VP Marketing: Jun 18, 2020 10:12:22 AM

Earlier this week, Lynx announced a set of products for a number of target applications. Each of these feature a combination of Lynx technology, guest operating systems from third parties and system... Read More

No safety without security

Ian Ferguson | VP Marketing: May 12, 2020 11:11:39 AM

Since my last blog on Edge Computing, I have been contemplating Lynx’s positioning with regard to safety or security. Are we providing security or safety? The short answer is that we provide both.... Read More

The "Edge" - More than a buzzword?

Ian Ferguson | VP Marketing: May 1, 2020 10:30:48 AM

The technology industry loves its buzzwords and acronyms. Every couple of years it seems there is something new that will cause a paradigm shift, that the world will be “turned upside down,” etc.... Read More

It isn't always about the rtos

Ian Ferguson | VP Marketing: Apr 23, 2020 10:52:35 AM

The world has changed drastically since my last blog at the end of February. We had just returned from Embedded World, but of course today it’s all about webinars, video and additional technical... Read More

The Covid-19 Effect: Running an engineering organization from home

Arun Subbarao | VP Engineering: Apr 20, 2020 1:47:50 PM

As I sat down to pen my first blog entry for Lynx Software Technologies, I found myself naturally inclined to debate the merits and trade-offs of the latest technology advancement. Instead, based on... Read More

Machine Learning in Avionics: When, Where, How

Ian Ferguson | VP Marketing: Apr 6, 2020 10:00:00 AM

Ever since John Reardon issued this article in the COTS Journal in January, I have been thinking about how artificial intelligence will start to appear in the avionics industry. My time prior to... Read More

A good surprise (to me) at lynx: The secure laptop opportunity

Ian Ferguson | VP Marketing: Mar 11, 2020 2:43:26 PM

I have now passed the ninety day tenure milestone at Lynx Software Technologies. I was reflecting today as to what the biggest surprise has been since joining from a marketing perspective. Somewhat... Read More

Trade Show Season and Product Announcements

Ian Ferguson | VP Marketing: Feb 25, 2020 12:00:00 PM

Since the start of the year, the amazing Lynx team has been hard at work in terms of content creation. We have rolled out a wide ranging set of updates to our website, introduced a new set of blogs... Read More

A message from the CEO– Lynx Software Technologies: the road ahead…

Gurjot Singh | CEO: Feb 18, 2020 1:09:14 PM

As you may have seen, Lynx Software Technologies has been undergoing some changes of late. I am truly excited about the direction in which we are headed. We have a great balance of new-to-Lynx and... Read More

Shifts in the Automotive Industry

Ian Ferguson | VP Marketing: Jan 29, 2020 12:15:00 AM

In my first blog, I mentioned that one of the reasons I joined Lynx Software Technologies was that I thought a number of additional markets were going to need and value the functionality that Lynx... Read More

Why Did I Join Lynx

Ian Ferguson | VP Marketing: Jan 6, 2020 2:00:00 PM

Behind highly visible, glamorous appliances like smartphones, televisions and in-car infotainment, there exists a broad range of technology largely hidden from its users. These systems have grown... Read More