On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Maria Pienaar wrote:
> Qualcomm claim
> that the CDMA standard is based on "open Internet IP" standards, so why did
> they not look at JAVA as this base for application development as opposed to
> bringing out another proprietary standard that only works with their
> technology?
As a software and sometime-operating-systems developer, the answer to
this is pretty clear to me. By going with their standard, rather than
with Java, they probably
1. Saved on their own development time: no need to port a JVM,
create libraries, etc.
2. Save on hardware resources: the programs will be much more
efficient for running directly, rather than being interpreted by a
JVM, and you don't have the memory overhead of a JVM.
3. Provide more functionality: you're not limited by the JVM as to
what you can do. (Of course, this is a bad thing if the program is
doing something you don't want it to do!)
Personally, I think that the advantages of going with Java will in the
long run far outweigh the advantages of going with a proprietary system,
but I can see how this decision could be made the way Qualcomm made it.
But what does it mean for Qualcomm's CDMA to be "based on 'open Internet
IP' stadards"?
cjs
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Received on Tue Sep 11 11:06:55 2001