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Re:‘Intelligent’ embedded devices will be driven by Java, sa... by getoffmalawn on Thursday November 22, 2012 @09:15AM (#4818794)
You mean to tell me that Oracle think that embedded devices will run Java? Heavens, I'm shocked.

"Embedded devices" is such a broad term now, that they need to scope it a little better. An ATM running Windows is considered embedded by some definition, which is kind of what I suspect they're talking about here - not resource-constrained devices like Arduino boards, as inferred by the image at the top of the article.

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Re:‘Intelligent’ embedded devices will be driven by Java, sa... by GotAnyMegadeth on Thursday November 22, 2012 @09:23AM (#4818819)
"...embedded devices... will be driven by Java, according to two recent Oracle-commissioned white papers."

lol

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Re:‘Intelligent’ embedded devices will be driven by Java, sa... by w0utert on Thursday November 22, 2012 @09:53AM (#4818929)
It gets even funnier when they mention 'security considerations' as a major benefit of using Java for said 'intelligent embedded devices', and that Java was 'originally designed and conceived to run in embedded devices [and] was precisely focused on the portability and productivity problems faced by embedded developers'.

Last few times I read about widespread cross-platform malware that affected Windows, Linux, OS X and even Android, sometimes all at the same time, these exploits were based on Java security holes :-S

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Re:‘Intelligent’ embedded devices will be driven by Java, sa... by cgh on Thursday November 22, 2012 @10:47AM (#4819072)
The security problems came by way of the browser plugin, a different beast entirely.
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