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To: Boplicity who wrote (1276)	3/7/2000 11:39:00 AM
From: Boplicity	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 3076

I have alter my view after reading the below link. ELON will not be used in a process control environments that require redundancy, like an oil refinery. I can see it being using it in a point to point limited application like smoke stack or to a group of remote values, but to string all the devices together on a network with-in one process control unit, even an area of a unit, would seem to be too dangerous an application. Still the below link shows Lonworks to be used in extensive and many different applications. Very Impressive, I almost want to go back to work again. Naahhhh LOL.. echelon.com uncle thanks for forcing me think more about it.. Greg

To: Boplicity who wrote (1276)	3/8/2000 1:02:00 AM
From: KW Wingman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3076

Your point of view on that subject has been stated many times in the past in different ways. Was it Gates that said he didn't think a computer would ever need more than 64K of memory ? How about the official who recommended closing the patent office in about 1890 because all the inventions had been invented. <It all comes down to the following question: Why would you need to network the process control devices?> I suspect there are many reasons including two big ones; Control and monitoring of the process from anywhere(assuming proper security in place).