Comments on: Stinger 553 SFF Rugged PC http://www.lifeatmost.com/pc/stinger-553-sff-rugged-pc/ Daily Gadget News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:41:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Markus Smith http://www.lifeatmost.com/pc/stinger-553-sff-rugged-pc/comment-page-1/#comment-3956 Markus Smith Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:40:37 +0000 http://www.lifeatmost.com/?p=3894#comment-3956 Very neat product idea, but too bad it is purely "Vaporware." A colleague of mine called Colmek this week to find out about availability, and they claimed the product is a built-to-order concept, not a COTS product available off the shelf yet. The Atom CPU board isn't even in production yet. They seem to be fishing for a customer to fund an NRE project. A scary observation I found on the Colmek Website -- I noticed that they plagiarized the MIL-STD rugged switch and mobile router products made by a competitor I am familiar with, Parvus (www.parvus.com). Colmek literally cut and paste the product descriptions for the DuraMAR and DuraNET products, tweaked the brand names a little and posted a mock-up of a different CAD rendering to suggest it's their own idea. Who are these guys fooling? Wasn't Colmek in bankupcy just last year? I guess when you're out of money, you resort to these sort of shady marketing tactics. Pretty low. I wonder if Parvus intends to offer an Atom-based mission computer in their DuraCOR product family? Anyone know about GE Fanuc or Curtiss Wright? Very neat product idea, but too bad it is purely “Vaporware.” A colleague of mine called Colmek this week to find out about availability, and they claimed the product is a built-to-order concept, not a COTS product available off the shelf yet. The Atom CPU board isn’t even in production yet. They seem to be fishing for a customer to fund an NRE project.

A scary observation I found on the Colmek Website — I noticed that they plagiarized the MIL-STD rugged switch and mobile router products made by a competitor I am familiar with, Parvus (www.parvus.com). Colmek literally cut and paste the product descriptions for the DuraMAR and DuraNET products, tweaked the brand names a little and posted a mock-up of a different CAD rendering to suggest it’s their own idea. Who are these guys fooling? Wasn’t Colmek in bankupcy just last year? I guess when you’re out of money, you resort to these sort of shady marketing tactics. Pretty low.

I wonder if Parvus intends to offer an Atom-based mission computer in their DuraCOR product family? Anyone know about GE Fanuc or Curtiss Wright?

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