04/08/2004 04:48:45, Eduardo Correia 
<eduardo.correia@poli.usp.br> wrote:

>    There is a TRITON module that uses PXA270.
>
>    More info on: http://www.karo-electronics.de/30.0.html

Interesting. It's a rather different approach though - the board 
_has_ to be plugged into something to be useful, whereas Balloon 
tries hard to be useful in standalone mode, and only resort to the 
backplane connector if you want to build a bigger system, or want 
some oddball hardware of your own. 
That does mean that the TRITON board is smaller, since it's not 
scattered with conectors and all the interface support 
components. There's also the fact that it' not open hardware, so 
you can't make lots of them yourself, if that's what you're after. 
It's definitely not going to stop the development of Balloon3 (we 
had a particularly pointless meeting wit the Intel sales guy 
yesterday... Sigh)

Steve