Hi Sonki - I have been watching ELON and noticed this article awhile back regarding SUNW and JINI...
"...old, but refreshing news....csco, sunw and now msft working with this company..
Monday January 25, 6:00 pm Eastern Time
Company Press Release
Echelon Corporation to Connect Jini Technology and LONWORKS Networks
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 25, 1999--Echelon Corporation (Nasdaq: ELON - news), a worldwide leader in networking for control, announced it will connect Echelon's LONWORKS system with Sun's Jini technology.
Cooperation between Echelon and Sun will focus on enabling LONWORKS systems and Jini technology compliant products to communicate and interact. Echelon's internationally recognized LONWORKS system provides an open standard for embedding intelligence into devices and integrating them into networked control solutions in buildings, factories, and homes.
This will not only enable users to interact with control systems and
devices from remote or mobile locations, but will also allow control
devices in these applications to access a wide variety of Jini technology-based digital network services.
''We are excited to be working with Sun to provide connectivity between LONWORKS networks and Jini technology-based networks,'' said Ken Oshman, president and CEO of Echelon Corporation. ''Transparent
connectivity will allow a wide variety of LonWorks enabled edge devices to be an integral part of a Jini technology network, creating a whole new generation of network services and products.''
''We are proud to have Echelon among the stellar technology companies
that have joined the Jini community,'' said Mark Tolliver, President of Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Consumer and Embedded Group. ''Connectivity
to Echelon's LONWORKS system provides the means for Jini technology to extend to millions of control devices worldwide.''
About Echelon Corp.
Echelon Corporation (Nasdaq: ELON - news) is the developer of
LONWORKS networks, recognized internationally as a standard for
interoperable control networks. With thousands of application developers and millions of devices installed worldwide, the LONWORKS system is a leading open, networked control solution for building and home automation, industrial, transportation, and public utility applications.
Echelon offers a full range of off-the-shelf hardware and software
products to support the development, installation and management of
intelligent, open and interoperable control networks. Echelon is based in Palo Alto, California with international offices in China, France,
Germany, Japan, Korea, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
News and information are available at echelon.com.
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This is quite positive for SUNW and Echelon going forward. Echelon should have a large established customer base with working devises in 18 to 24 months. I see SUNW supporting these devises with an appliance server using JINI. Also COMPAQ will have such a server on the market too in the near future. IMO SUNW may begin to see royalty revenues from their JINI software by FY 2000 as we estimated and should see significant new hardware server sales from the Echelon devises opening up a whole new industry for "appliance" network control systems.
Very bullish on SUNW and Echelon (ELON) in the next 18 months.
EKS |
