We recently bought a PC (PPC-2115, normal win-XP) from NI for an industrial application. Now we heard that that unit is discontinued soon, so repair service will be very limited. We want to change to another iPC. NI suggests TPC-2215 touch panel with windows-7 embedded. But then they say that we need a special Touch Panel license to make exe-files for this PC.
If this is true it makes the TPC 2215 a very bad choice for us. Both that we have to pay a new licence, but most that new introduce a new taget. The exe-file we make for the TPC-2215 cannot be run on any normal PC (during tests, as backup if the TPC needs service etc.). Since we already have a bunch of normal iPC (different brands, including NI) we have to compile every program twice, one for touch panel, and one for normal labview runtime.
So is it really true that a normal labview program "hello-world.exe" will not run on the new TPC-2215?
(sampe question would apply to TPC-2206 and TPC-2212)
