Re: [A5:RT] Minimum J2ME Specs and Strategy

Andrzej Jan Taramina wrote:
> Marc and others have assumed:
> 
> 
>>However, most development is currently going on on CLDC +
>>MIDP capable cell phones and PDA devices and a framework for componentized
>>services could be a great product on these platforms.
> 
> 
> Be careful of making the cell phone/PDA assumption. I believe there is a more 
> pressing and larger market opportunity in the embedded systems arena (eg. 
> manufacturing process control, and the like).  The consumer device market is 
> probably not as attractive a platform for Avalon 5 in this respect.
> 
> A slimmed down Avalon container/framework would be ideal for this market 
> segment since lifecycle support, modularity and container support will be key 
> to support such embedded controllers.

I'm very interested about using Avalon for PLC-based controllers.
You see, we are an automation firm, and PLC programming is a mess. I 
want to see what can be done to make next-generation automation control 
using Avalon.

So yes, this is definately a cool idea :-)

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