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Curt Wuollet
Hi Phil
That's why the pressure for standardization must come from outside the automation establishment. Hell, they've just ended years of trying to do this very same thing with worse than no results, along the way they actually gained protocols. The push for Ethernet had very little to do with this bunch of self-interested NIH mavens. The push came from customers who have already
standardized on Ethernet and TCP/IP who know that connectors shouldn't cost $80.00 and a serial card shouldn't cost $450.00 and the whole purpose of networking is to interoperate. I expect this
trend to continue until proprietary solutions get you shown to the door. Only then will someone come up with the bright "idea" of standardizing on open protocols. I don't have a problem with
proprietary protocols so much as what they are used for which comes close to extortion. That and the bald faced liars calling them open. My questions are: When will the reasonable expectations of the customer start to matter. When will systems integrators start to matter? And when will networks begin to connect things together rather than keep them isolated by vendor?
Regards
cww
That's why the pressure for standardization must come from outside the automation establishment. Hell, they've just ended years of trying to do this very same thing with worse than no results, along the way they actually gained protocols. The push for Ethernet had very little to do with this bunch of self-interested NIH mavens. The push came from customers who have already
standardized on Ethernet and TCP/IP who know that connectors shouldn't cost $80.00 and a serial card shouldn't cost $450.00 and the whole purpose of networking is to interoperate. I expect this
trend to continue until proprietary solutions get you shown to the door. Only then will someone come up with the bright "idea" of standardizing on open protocols. I don't have a problem with
proprietary protocols so much as what they are used for which comes close to extortion. That and the bald faced liars calling them open. My questions are: When will the reasonable expectations of the customer start to matter. When will systems integrators start to matter? And when will networks begin to connect things together rather than keep them isolated by vendor?
Regards
cww