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Hello, I showed the article draft to Petr (my father), just in case there's something all of us that have read it a dozen times are missing, and he really only made one comment: quo vadis - in what way do we mean to compete with PLCs? I'm not sure we're all that clear on that ourselves... Apparently it shows. On the one hand, PuffinPLC is currently heading toward being programmable like a PLC, but an industrial PC plus I/O hardware will end up being more expensive than a medium-class PLC and therefore non-competitive. On the other hand PuffinPLC could compete with the likes of Labview or Citec, which run on the same platform and therefore have the same restrictions, but development on that front is currently non-existent. So... quo vadimus? Personally, I think we should get ourselves a programming language or environment in the direction of Labview/Citec/whatever. Or perhaps modules to do SCADA. We still want stepladder and the IEC languages - partly for flexibility, partly so that the one solution can be used factory-wide - but only in the more advanced languages will we have a serious advantage over PLCs. Opinions? Jiri -- Jiri Baum <[email protected]> Q: Why did the chicken cross the Moebius Strip? A: To get to the other... um... er... --r.h.f.r _______________________________________________ LinuxPLC mailing list [email protected] http://linuxplc.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxplc