--- In "Don W. Carr" <> wrote:
>
> I know Kelvin Nilsen from my days at Iowa State University where
he was a
> professor for a while, and where they started out in the research
park
> before moving to Tempe.
Small world! I worked at that research park in Ames, IA. NewMonics
(now Aonix) moved engineering to Tucson actually (not Tempe) and
thats how I arrived here in Arizona.
He is a very bright guy, but I wish they would
> figure out a way to open source at least the run-time or it will
never take
> off in embedded devices. They will just slowly improve the
standard JVM for
> embedded systems and Perc will become irrelevant if it is not open
sourced.
> If they did open source it, they would become ubiquitous on
embedded systems
> and would make a lot more on service and support. Heck, it would
hasten the
> move to Java on embedded devices. If there was a JVM with real-
time features
> on virtually all platforms, things would be a lot different.
Its probably harder to make something open-source when many people
and investors have already spent lots of $$$ building it. :-)
Indeed, it would be nice to have PERC open-source, but from what I
understand, the Aonix PERC products are doing well for the company's
bottom line right now.
>
> Another small issue also is that with most real-time applications,
you
> allocate objects once and never stop using them. Though it is good
to have a
> good garbage collector, the garbage collection issue is not very
big for
> most embedded real-time applications.
I know some people at Aonix that would probably disagree with you.
//Jesse Off
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