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To: Prognosticator who wrote (714)	2/9/1999 9:13:00 AM
From: Charles Broderick	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1606

We cant expect to obliterate the market.........so we're always going to come up against "competitive" response, and the more of them that come the bigger the market verification we'll see....It's the size of the market that needs to be verified. Dont be a straw in the wind!!!!! INSGY have it taped, and the tech response we'll have shortly will further endorse, the replies to the "windy" question raised!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry! but it was "windy"!!!!!!!!!!!! But it is nice, oh! so nice to see Wind River Systems standing at $21 dollars before the open....is'nt that nice....and shows us all how undervalued we are!!!! The IrishAdVentUrer!!!

To: Prognosticator who wrote (714)	2/10/1999 6:16:00 AM
From: Javaaah	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1606

Prognosticator, There sure are problems between JDK versions, but I think (not sure) that 1.2 (or JAva 2 as its called) is going to settle down for embedded for a while. Remember that dynamic class loading works currently (since Java supports Java class loaders as part of its API), and so provided the Java designer creates the required infrastructure on the device, it becomes very easy to add in new functionality, provided the new classes match the Java enviroment (the JDKs match). For example, imagine amobile phone which one week down loads a dating service complete with GIFs, and next week some sort of phone directory service,etc. Anyways, by the time JINI enabled devices are in production levels, I suspect that a lot of other issues will have been thrashed out. For RTOSes, WIND is number one as you say, but they are still basically paying lip service to Java, since Sun's VM (licensed by WIND) does not scale down very well at the moment, nor does it perfrom for dynamic stuff. Also, the major commercial RTOSes sell into a tiny percentage (4% ??) of the embedded market ... well over 90% is untapped, where smaller companies are doing homegrown stuff. If someone got their act together to produce a cheap enough RTOS for this segment, and if someone else had a nice portable Java platform which could be retargetted for said OS and new processors in a timely manner, then perhaps Java becomes a lot more prominent. Who comes to mind for the Java bit ... INSGY !!!! They could probably do the RTOS as well, but that's not their business line. As for Windows and dll's ... it/they are a pain the proverbials. Happy hunting Javaaah.