Vincent:
thank you for posting the thoughtful response to my analysis by fomm50. I agree with most of if (given Bills clarification of the Java Embedded Server information techstocks.com.
A thought: are investors perhaps confused by the similarity of the terms Jini and JENE: they can be pronounced identically. That would be unfortunate since it would imply that Insignia would benefit direcly from anything related to Jini and Sun, which is not true, though success of Jini might lead to more use of JENE as long as JENE is the best, most cost effective solution to embedded JVM's.
I had not seen the advantages to Insignia avoiding the SPARC platform. Regarding the use of Windows CE in deeply embedded systems such as those which will benefit most from Jini, my opinion after many years in the embedded systems development arena is that CE is simply not appropriate.
JENE sits on top of other RTOS kernels. This is a technical advantage, since it lends portability, robustness, and credibility to JENE as a young technology. However, it may prove a drawback to acceptance by systems integrators (e.g. disk drive manufacturers) who will have to pay royalties to Insignia, Sun, and the RTOS vendor. In deeply embedded, cost is everything, and pennies count.
A Jini solution which ran on bare hardware (and I believe Sun is working on such a beast) would be more attractive than a JENE solution: one stop shopping from Sun, and only one set of royalties to pay.
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