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Choice of platform for Orbotech's project (was: RE: Please Help!)
I have some questions and points:
1. As I understand, there are really three systems for which platform/s are
to be chosen:
- The "machine", assumed to be an embedded processor system.
- The computer running the GUI for controlling the "machine".
- The development platform for the above (maybe two separate development
platforms?).
2. Is there any special reason why the development platform has to be the
same as the target platform?
3. Is the "product" itself a embedded processor system? Does it have to
use the same platform as the computer running the GUI (i.e. the computer
via which the user is controlling the product)?
4. While most of the Linux-IL subscribers, being Linux enthusiasts, believe
that Linux will eventually completely drive out Windows NT out of the market
and provide complete support (via WINE, WABI or whatever) for Windows 95
applications - it is impossible to be both responsible and give numerical
answers to the question of which platform will be dominant in the future.
Therefore my advice to Jeffrey from Orbotech is not to base his decision
upon the numbers themselves, but upon analysis of the risk incurred by
making either choice.
5. My specific suggestions for reducing the risk incurred by either choice are:
- For the "machine" choose an operating system for which there is adequate
cross-development support under both Windows 95 and Unix systems
(even if currently not supported by Linux). The risk is reduced because
eventually almost every Unix based application will be ported to Linux; and
you'll not rely upon Microsoft alone.
- For the GUI machine, use browser-based interface (i.e. the "machine" and
the GUI computer will communicate with each other by HTML). This is the
lowest risk because all platforms in the future will support HTML-aware
browsers.
- For the development platform, choose whichever platform your engineers feel
the most powerful, comfortable and least frustrated with.
--- Omer
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey Danowitz [SMTP:jeff-d@Orbotech.Co.IL]
Sent: Thu November 05 1998 16:13
To: linux-il@linux.org.il
Subject: Please Help!
To whom it may concern,
We are working on a new project here at Orbotech and are currently
interested in choosing an appropriate platform in which to develop the
software for it. The final product will be a "machine" that will be
controlled by the user through a computer on the same type of platform.
Presently the dominate platform in the world is PC using windows NT/95.
What do you forsee in the future with regards to the popularity of linux
vs. windows NT/95
in the future? Can you provide numerical answers to thie question.