The topic of RFID has been approached a few times in this blog. RFID, being a technology, is supporting a number of usage scenarios and its maturity depends on the area we are looking at. Access control and retail and certainly not at the same place.
Still the middleware space has changed significantly over the last year, with the Oracle/BEA deal, steady progress from Microsoft and SAP, and the Checkpoint/OAT deal more recently. I found this article to be quite interesting about this and trying to look at the future of middleware…http://www.rfidupdate.com/news/07082008.html#editorsNoteWhile the functions provided by the middleware themselves are certainly going to stay in some form, it will be interesting to see if some of the larger players are able to use this as a differentiator versus a “need to have” type set of features.
Why isn't a 60 years old technology more mainstream?
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08-21-2008 7:17 PM
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guillaumeoget