1.5. The Open Services Gateway Initiative
Sun Microsystems is a founding member of the OSGi consortium (http://www.osgi.org), an independent, nonprofit industry group that has defined an open standard for connecting future generations of networked consumer and small business devices to Internet services. The need for standardization is obvious:
Platform independence. Different types of gateway devices usually have their own native platforms and various combinations of processors and operating systems. Such diversity is much more common for the embedded devices than for desktop computers. It would be infeasible for service developers to write applications and port them to many platforms with drastically different underlying characteristics, let ...
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