RE: [Embedlets-dev] Relevant reading....

[James C. <ca...@vi...>]

This is all part of a paradigm shift from a hardware centric world to a
software centric world. The VM concept is all part of the same shift where
hardware is the commodity and the software and skillbases of the users has
the greatest value.

It makes total sense, when hardware was first introduced, there were no
software users and knowing the hardware was the only way to solve the
problem so hardware got proprietry and arogant and always thought it would
be this way. 30+ years later the value is in the millions of users with
between 1 and 40 years of software experience equallying hundreds of
millions of man years of skillbase and knowledge. These days its pretty rich
for a hardware company to put out a new chip costing say 100 man years and
expect the market with 100 million man years of momentum to relearn the new
hardware.

Hence, the VM, making software look like hardware. It also underpins my
Language Neutralisation Strategy for muvium.

James Caska
http://www.muvium.com
'Java Bred for Embedded'



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> Andrzej Jan Taramina
> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 10:25 AM
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> Subject: [Embedlets-dev] Relevant reading....
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> _______________________________________________
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> Came across an interesting strategy document from Joel Spolsky on
> commoditizing your complements today.  I thought I had read all
> of Joel's older
> stuff, but somehow I missed this one.
>
> It struck me that we are trying to do exactly that with the
> Outpost/Embedlet
> project.  We want to commoditize embedded software development process.
> Interesting!  His comments about Sun's Java quandry also are
> relevant, since
> our approach also has the chance of commoditizing the proprietary
> hardware
> that has been typically used in embedded solutions, as a
> side-effect of using
> Java as the platform.
>
> Worth a read:  http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html
>
>
> Andrzej Jan Taramina
> Chaeron Corporation: Enterprise System Solutions
> http://www.chaeron.com
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