I was hoping that you could refer me to someone that I could speak with about it. Additionally, I was hoping that you could rattle off a few companies that are developing in this space. There are companies making mobile devices, automotive systems, and of course Digital TV and cable boxes, as well as other kinds of appliances. There are general solutions and industry-specific stacks. And for the first time in a good long time, a great many of these companies are actually building accepted and useful products and making real money doing it.
Smart devices seem to finally be a thing whose time has come.
One of the hottest areas in general, and certainly in software, is applications and services for emerging Net-connected mobile devices. PDAs are a significant opportunity, but the big money seems to be building behind Web-enabled mobile phones. DoCoMo's next generation of imode will embrace Java technology in the form of the Java 2 Micro Edition, enabling code to download into consumer's devices and install new apps and services on the fly. Developers and ISVs are learning about J2ME now so that they will be ready when the technology is deployed in the live imode service sometime later this year or early next. Again, the potential opportunity is tremendous.