Comments on: JC301-2: Why change Java Card? http://javacard.vetilles.com/2008/09/15/jc301-2-why-change-java-card/ A weblog on Java Card, security, and other things personal Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:34:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Eric Vétillard http://javacard.vetilles.com/2008/09/15/jc301-2-why-change-java-card/#comment-3222 Eric Vétillard Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:55:35 +0000 http://javacard.vetilles.com/2008/09/15/jc301-2-why-change-java-card/#comment-3222 To Bruce: About availability, I have written a <a href="http://javacard.vetilles.com/2008/09/17/java-card-3-products/" rel="nofollow">post</a> as an answer. About the price, I can't tell for many reasons, including "I don't know", and "I am not allowed to disclose this information". What I can tell is that the hardware chip could be around twice as expensive as a typical smart card. But the price of a smart card also includes software-related costs, production-related costs, and I don't know anything about these. To Bruce: About availability, I have written a post as an answer.

About the price, I can’t tell for many reasons, including “I don’t know”, and “I am not allowed to disclose this information”. What I can tell is that the hardware chip could be around twice as expensive as a typical smart card. But the price of a smart card also includes software-related costs, production-related costs, and I don’t know anything about these.

]]> By: Bruce Hopkins http://javacard.vetilles.com/2008/09/15/jc301-2-why-change-java-card/#comment-3220 Bruce Hopkins Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:29:35 +0000 http://javacard.vetilles.com/2008/09/15/jc301-2-why-change-java-card/#comment-3220 Eric, Do you know when Gemalto plans to release their Java Card 3 cards? You mentioned that Java Card 3 card are expensive -- how expensive is "expensive"? Thanks, Bruce Eric,

Do you know when Gemalto plans to release their Java Card 3 cards? You mentioned that Java Card 3 card are expensive — how expensive is “expensive”?

Thanks,

Bruce

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