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To: HeyRainier who wrote (18)7/18/1999 9:48:00 PM
From: quartersawyer   of 153
 
QCOM/ERICY "standards battle" teaches me"
Trinidad, I'm glad you put the quotes around "standards battle", but I'm not clear about whether you are considering the Ericsson proposals to have been "viable". If one is to learn from what happened in that war, it must be understood that what Ericsson proposed was not viable, that Ericsson's objective was to delay and damage the progress of CDMAone toward an irrevocable advantage of GSM and whatever Ericsson was hoping to develop for a 3G technology, and that paid analysts failed to comprehend the issue (or were restrained by their companies who were engaged in lucrative work for Ericsson). The history of the war is lengthy, but for a succinct statement near a turning point read Message 6899536.
At the present time, the recent management reversal at Ericsson may, in fact, signal a return of the "hagfish" strategy. The complete metaphorical association of that revolting creature can be accessed in the spectacular posts of Maurice Winn last Fall on the Qualcomm thread. If lessons are to be learned, all of Gregg Powers, Maurice, engineer and Clark Hare from that thread and that period of time would be of real value.

I'm not sure of how to characterize the battle, but the competing hand held wireless device operating systems from Microsoft, Palm and Psion (through Symbian) is interesting. Personally I'm having a hard time working it through.
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