With Hewlett-Packard Co winning deals for its embedded Java virtual machine with companies including Integrated Systems Inc, Lynx Real-Time Systems Inc, Microware Systems Corp and QNX Software Systems Ltd – between them they own almost 50% of the market – the industry is waiting for Java owner Sun Microsystems Inc to respond. Investors Business Daily reports another of Sun’s embedded partners, Wind River Systems Inc, is also considering defecting to HP. Wind River is said to be number two in the market with a 22% share, behind ISI which has 28%. The paper reports the two companies are now talking about unifying their competing embedded Java technologies. HP’s plan of developing a embedded-specific set of Java technologies is what’s said to have turned the companies on to it. Most do not need much of the other baggage shipped with Java.
