I’m a longtime customer of NI. I would never have them prepare software for me. I’ve been to big complex physics experiments (accelerators and similar)that bought NI gear, and in all cases they wrote their own code, I don’t think NI even offers that service.
The press release does not imply that, it just says that they are buying stuff from NI, and NI confirmed that.
There are plenty of people who code .vi’s in LabView, and many little consulting companies who will do it for you if you don’t know how or don’t have the time.
I also agree with the comment someone else made about not relying too much on just software control. I agree hardware should be designed so failure is inherently contained. But what I had in mind was that over the years you will have hardware failures eventually, and you want the software to respond appropriately (rather than making the problem worse) in safely shutting the system down. Plus no blue-screening in general.