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Re: New forum topic - Open Control
Feb 5, 2002 2:21 pm, by Hullsiek, William
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Personally, the definition works for me. It covers the Foxboro situation where they sell you a Sun (which is open) but you only buy the Sun from Foxboro.
From a user-perspective, vendors can (should) add value by:
1. Testing
You probably can 'charge more' if you test your components with other vendors.
Let your customer know they have a choice.
2. Improving manage-ability of the components.
Have a unified frameworks based on CORBA, Java, SNMP for managing multiple vendor control equipment.
3. Different programming tools / IDE for porting
Would be nice to have CTC state logic running on other equipment.
4. Training courses -- Application instead of vendor.
Imagine if we had training courses organized by application instead of by vendor.
It would really be useful, if we could lower the cost of implementation and ownership for our customers.
- bill hullsiek
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