IMAQ under LabView 2020 SP1 Linux (Ubuntu)

[coletek]

Thanks Rolf.

It is very easy to make money using Linux. Many have done so for years. Hence why the bulk of the embedded hardware (routers, smartphones, web servers, etc) run Linux.

I appreciate LabView was born in a time when such software costs (e.g. Windows). The game has changed, and I'd advise LabView to follow suit if its interested in continued revenue. Apple moved to Linux (well forked BSD). Even Windows is moving to Linux...

Anyway - don't want to get into a mud fight. All the best.

[rolfk]

Sure you can earn money with Linux and many do. But the problem here is your target audience and size. The products NI has build in the past, both hardware and software, are not so easy to sell to schools and universities without substantial subsidized prices. And that was always the main Linux target audience for NI. And the only real reason they actually even supported it, was not to earn money with it (it never really was of any significance in terms of the bottomline) but to get students exposed to their solutions so that they might use some of it later when working in the industry.

But this traditional market isn't even big enough on Windows for NI nowadays. And the direction they are moving in to get more sales is definitely not towards supporting more Linux, as that would only provide margins in comparison to the current sales volume, but it is moving away from a lot of what NI used to be in the past.