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Technology Stocks : 3Com Corporation (COMS)
COMS 0.00130-67.5%Nov 7 11:47 AM EST
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To: William Wang who wrote (19071)7/14/1998 9:06:00 AM
From: Bruce L  Read Replies (1) of 45548
 
<I still don't understand why the leaving of Palm Pilot's inventor is a positive news to COMS according to some posts...It only shows the incompetence of COMS's management team.>

No one that I can recall has said it is a positive. What some have said (including myself) is that the leaving of these people is not necessarily a negative. It is a known fact that some entrepreneurs and eccentric inventor sorts do not fit well/are not comfortable in the button-down white collar world. That being said, the leaving of these people from COMS - from everything that's been reported - has been on the best of terms. In fact, before they left they signed with COMS a licensing agreement that allows them in their new entrepreneurial endeavors to develop further software applications for the "Palm." It is exactly this independent software development (that COMS does not have to pay for) in an "open" environment that has given Palm the overwhelmingly dominant position and momentum that some analysts feel Microsolft can never overcome. Donna Dubinski when she left said that COMS was "tremendously undervalued." This was apparently based on her knowledge of Palm sales and profits - andshe should know.

As I recall, this is the second time you have posted to the effect that the "inventor's"leaving was a new disaster for COMS and further proved the incompetence of COMS' management. Do you have any reasoning or facts to support either or both of these two opinions? (That is, that it(the leaving) is bad, and that it proves incompetence.)
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