may be better hardware threads support ? better support of the Atom chip sets ?
may be INTC wants it's own Android with 1000s existing clients ?
and may be INTC wants to get rid of WinCE ?
check http://gomyplace.com/ it is not fully implemented, but if you are interested i can bring the product to the production phase fairly quick and make it embeddable. integration with vxWorks is not a problem. Or just consider the idea.
hardware reboots - there are relays which can be controlled remotely, including HTTP interface. Again I could help you here - i can reverse engineer software for the existing hardware and put support you need, like SSL or SSH. Also you can consider developing of the hardware - this is not prohibitively expensive as many think. Such hardware can be sold as a separate and profitable product. The market of remotely controlled relays still is limited.