Contrary to your experience, VxWorks has a very good reputation in the embedded/real-time industry. I've used it in many projects myself. It performs well, int

Contrary to your experience, VxWorks has a very good reputation in the embedded/real-time industry. I've used it in many projects myself. It performs well, integrates well, runs on most things you can want and everything supports it. Its pretty much the de-facto standard in defence circles.