Oracle Rewards Inductive Automation for Innovation
At the JavaOne conference in October, Oracle awarded Inductive Automation with the Duke's Choice Award for innovation in the industrial software industry. The award is handed out yearly to companies that make excellent use of the Java programming language to innovate new software solutions in their industry. Past winners of the award include Motorola, Apache and CERN.
Inductive Automation won the award because of their work in creating Ignition, the first Java-based HMI (human machine interface), SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) application in the industrial software industry. In creating Ignition, Inductive Automation was the first private company to implement the OPC-UA standard in Java, effectively extending the use of Java into the manufacturing industry.
Inductive Automation's lead software developers, Carl Gould and Colby Clegg, were on hand at the event to accept the award.
