sometimes it's fun to read about what people with obese piles of money are up to.
--- On Thu, 3/29/12, Eric H. Johnson <ejohn...@camalytics.com> wrote: > From: Eric H. Johnson <ejohn...@camalytics.com> > Subject: [Emc-users] LAMP stack for robotics > To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Thursday, March 29, 2012, 8:23 AM > Just an FYI, > > This article was recently posted via slashdot: > http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2012/03/29/can-willow-garages-linux-for > -robots-spur-internet-scale-growth/?single_page=true > > <quote> > That's one of the main arguments you'll hear from the > engineers at Willow > Garage, a unique startup in Menlo Park, CA, that's > developing hardware and > software for a new generation of personal robots. You can't > name a single > Internet company, they say, that would have succeeded if it > had been forced > to recreate all the basic tools underlying the Web, from the > Linux operating > system to the Apache HTTP server to the MySQL database > system to the Python, > Perl, and PHP programming languages-the ingredients of the > so-called LAMP > stack. Yet most robot companies still try to reinvent the > wheel every time, > building robots that require putting together a tangled mess > of proprietary, > one-off software systems. > </quote> > > Slashdot link: > http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/03/29/1325256/needed-a-lamp-stack-fo > r-robotics?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed > > Linuxcnc was already mentioned in one of the early > comments. > > Also interesting and perhaps applicable is the discussion > about STEP-NC on > the developers mailing list. > > Regards, > Eric > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF email is sponsosred by: > Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
