Wasabi Systems

Wasabi Systems is a commercial software vendor best known for Wasabi Certified BSD (WCB), a tested, certified, and enhanced BSD-family operating system designed for advanced networked devices. According to the company's official website, WCB is aimed at original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) that want the benefits of an open source operating system without the costs and licensing constraints of the GPL. The product is positioned as a commercially viable alternative to both GPL-licensed systems and the "roll-your-own" approach that the company argues is unsuitable for complex applications with substantial user-developed intellectual property. Wasabi Certified BSD is built on the BSD family of operating systems, which the company describes as having a 25-year heritage of ongoing enhancements and advancing networking features. The company emphasizes BSD's clean architecture, familiar API, and robust TCP/IP implementation, which have long made it the "developer's choice." Wasabi's value proposition is to make that choice commercially viable by providing regression, conformance, and performance testing at its own performance and testing lab, along with full documentation and support. Each Wasabi Certified BSD Board Support Package includes support for the specific features of the hardware platform, documentation, a cross toolchain hosted on Windows, Linux, or BSD, complete source code, and 90 days of configuration and installation support. Wasabi states that its regression, characterization, and stress testing enable it to certify that the binary OS it delivers operates to a professional standard. The company reports that WCB is used by customers including Intel, Apple, Marvell, IBM, and many others. Wasabi Systems operates in the commercial open source and embedded operating system market, serving OEMs building advanced network devices and server appliances. The company's official website is wasabisystems.com. Beyond the information available from its website and Wikidata, limited public details are available about its founding, ownership, and current corporate status.

Wasabi Systems is a commercial software company that developed and marketed Wasabi Certified BSD (WCB), an enhanced and certified BSD-family operating system. The company's official website describes WCB as a tested, certified, and enhanced BSD-family operating system designed for advanced networked devices, with wide platform support and guaranteed performance. Wasabi Systems positioned WCB as an ideal choice for OEMs seeking the benefits of an open source operating system without the costs of the GPL license. The company built its offering around the BSD family of operating systems, which it notes has a 25-year heritage of ongoing enhancements and advancing networking features often copied by others. Wasabi argued that other open source operating systems have adverse licensing provisions or a "roll-your-own" quality that makes them unsuitable for complex applications with a substantial level of user-developed intellectual property. In contrast, Wasabi Certified BSD was presented as having the technical features, customer support, and licensing flexibility needed in advanced network devices and server appliances. Wasabi Systems operated its own performance and testing lab, where all WCB packages were regression, conformance, and performance tested. This testing allowed the company to certify that the binary OS it delivered operated to a professional standard. Each Wasabi Certified BSD Board Support Package included support for the specific features of the hardware platform, documentation, a cross toolchain hosted on Windows, Linux, or BSD, complete source code, and 90 days of configuration and installation support. According to the company's website, WCB was used by customers including Intel, Apple, Marvell, IBM, and many others. The company's official website is wasabisystems.com. Wikidata records Wasabi Systems as a company (Q106194823). Detailed public information about the company's founding date, founders, headquarters location, ownership, and current operational status is limited in the available evidence.

Commercial, certified BSD-family operating system for OEMs seeking open source benefits without GPL licensing costs; positioned as a professionally tested and supported alternative to roll-your-own open source.

• Wasabi Certified BSD (WCB)

  A tested, certified, and enhanced BSD-family operating system designed for advanced networked devices, with wide platform support and guaranteed performance.

• Wasabi Certified BSD Board Support Package

  Includes support for the specific features of the hardware platform, documentation, a cross toolchain hosted on Windows, Linux, or BSD, complete source code, and 90 days of configuration and installation support.

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2. 2Wasabi Systems - Wikidatawikidata.org