Portable Protocol: A Blog About Industrial Automation: Babelfish and Euro-speak about the healthy aspects of protocol-driven competition - By N.L. Belardes

Friday, January 06, 2006

Babelfish and Euro-speak about the healthy aspects of protocol-driven competition - By N.L. Belardes

In the spirit of healthy competition between rival industrial automation companies, Thomas Schildknecht sent me one final note on yesterday's blog:

We are looking forward to seeing ProSoft Technology as a strong competitor with a lot of technological knowhow that may be stronger than our European wireless competitors like PhoenixContact, ELPRO, SATEL and SIEMENS (anyway, we are now "Siemens Wireless Solution Partner" for our industrial Wifi/Ethernet projects because of the Siemens market share of about 85% in Europe).

An eighty-five percent market share? That's huge! But then, Europe is the land of Siemens and Schneider Electric; and if DATAEAGLE has been around for twenty-five years...

In one final comment, I noticed that yesterday's blog, "Profibus wireless makes for Winter Olympic Stardom" was linked on the DATAEAGLE website along with a brief paragraph of commentary. As I mentioned, I can't read or speak German. So I just went ahead and let Babelfish do the translating for me...

German:

Tagebücher im Internet, sogenannte Blogs, werden auch für professionelle News verwendet. Nick Belardes hat DATAEAGLE einen grossen Absatz in seinem Tagebuch gewidmet und auch eine "Kampfansage" der amerikanischen Wireless Industrie an Europa in den Raum gestellt. Wettbewerb belebt das Geschäft und zumindest wir fühlen uns sehr gut gerüstet. Es zeigt jedoch dass Funk in der Automatisierungstechnik auf einem guten Weg ist.

Babelfish translation. I loved that it re-named me, Nod:

Diaries in the InterNet, so-called Blogs, are used also for professional news. Nod Belardes to DATA EAGLES a large paragraph in his diary dedicated and also a "challenge" the American Wireless industry at Europe into the area placed. Competition animates the business and at least we feels very well prepared. It shows however that radio in the automatic control engineering on a good way is.

I have to say, I think Thomas is saying competition sparks great business. I like that! Dialogue because of product competition, I think, brings about awareness, understanding, and even more information for customers to sift through when purchasing into expensive automation networks.

-N.L. Belardes

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