SIEMENS STICKS WITH JAVA SPLINTER GROUP.

By William Fellows Siemens Nixdorf Informationssystemes AG says it remains committed to the aims of Real Time Java Working Group despite the wall RTWG ran into last week when NCITS voted not to sponsor its proposal for standardization. SNI looks at the situation with "a laughing and a weeping eye;" (that is literally translated from German, it doesn't know what the English phrase would be). It says the good thing about the RTWG proposal being shot down is the elimination of the possibility of two competing real-time Java standards. Its weeping eye says "it may take a little longer and it may be a tiny bit more different to what we really want." Besides that, not much has changed as far as its real-time efforts are concerned. "For the actual implementation we know, that whatever the final standard is going to look like, it will be somewhat different to what we have right now. So we keep on making proposals and if what we propose is convincing enough, it will make it into the final standard." SNI says it doesn't plan to change its Java license plans. "Sun still has not committed to a real-time capable implementation, so why should we switch to them?"