Datamax MCL User Manual
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IT Decision Maker’s Perspective
Today’s mobile computers are orders of magnitude more powerful than their
predecessors. Organizations investing in this new generation of mobile computers
want to gain the most benefit from their investment and take advantage of the
capabilities of these new devices with their superior operating systems, powerful
processors, crisp color displays, extensive memory capacities, barcode scanners, radio
frequency identification (RFID), imagers, voice capabilities, and high-performance
wireless communications.
However, as technology advances, it is changing more rapidly than ever before. For
instance, the lifecycle of operating systems is becoming shorter all the time.
Consequently the concurrent existence of diverse operating systems is proliferating.
This is very evident in the mobile computing world. Chart 1 depicts these shortening
lifecycles and proliferation of diverse operating systems for mobile computers.
Given the rapid changes in technology, how do companies realize the potential of the
new generation of mobile computers yet:
predecessors. Organizations investing in this new generation of mobile computers
want to gain the most benefit from their investment and take advantage of the
capabilities of these new devices with their superior operating systems, powerful
processors, crisp color displays, extensive memory capacities, barcode scanners, radio
frequency identification (RFID), imagers, voice capabilities, and high-performance
wireless communications.
However, as technology advances, it is changing more rapidly than ever before. For
instance, the lifecycle of operating systems is becoming shorter all the time.
Consequently the concurrent existence of diverse operating systems is proliferating.
This is very evident in the mobile computing world. Chart 1 depicts these shortening
lifecycles and proliferation of diverse operating systems for mobile computers.
Given the rapid changes in technology, how do companies realize the potential of the
new generation of mobile computers yet:
Assure themselves of cross-platform compatibility?
Assure themselves of forward migration paths?
Future-proof their applications?
Protect their investments?
Minimize their total cost of application ownership?
Assure themselves of forward migration paths?
Future-proof their applications?
Protect their investments?
Minimize their total cost of application ownership?
The answer is MCL-Collection.
MCL is dedicated towards, and optimized for, mobile computers, data capture
technologies, diverse operating systems, and cross-platform portability of mobile
workforce applications.
MCL is designed from the bottom up for platform independence—platform
neutrality—for mobile computers. Chart 1 depicts MCL’s cross-platform continuity
timeline against the proliferation of diverse mobile computer operating systems.
Its platform independence provides the framework for MCL to future-proof your
mobile worker applications. To validate MCL’s ability to future-proof your
investments, consider that an MCL application created for DR-DOS can be migrated
to run today on a mobile computer running a mobile windows operating system! The
same assertion can not be made for an application written in a low-level ‘C’ like
language.
Total Cost of Ownership
MCL is focused on minimizing your total cost of application ownership. Application
cost does not start and end with the initial development and deployment of an
application. Total cost of application ownership involves the cost of the application
over the entire life of the application, including maintenance resource time and effort
to keep an application current.
cost does not start and end with the initial development and deployment of an
application. Total cost of application ownership involves the cost of the application
over the entire life of the application, including maintenance resource time and effort
to keep an application current.
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