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To: gdichaz who wrote (145)8/18/1999 11:51:00 AM
From: Mark Oliver  Read Replies (3) of 332
 
Interesting report on the Win CE model vs Psion's EPOC based hand held computers. Looks like IBM is playing an important role in making EPOC a stronger product with their MQ Series network interface product.


Psion blazing a trail from handhelds to enterprise apps

August 16, 1999
Web posted at: 11:08 a.m. EDT (1508 GMT)

by John Cox

A handheld computer pioneer now hopes to blaze a direct trail between these devices and existing corporate applications and databases.

Psion Enterprise Computing, a unit of Britain's Psion PLC, this fall plans to release the netBook handheld PC, running the Epoc operating system. The netBook will look a lot like computers running Microsoft's Windows CE: It will have a color backlit screen and an 84-character keyboard, and will weigh just under three pounds.

But what's not obvious may be what's most significant. Inside, the netBook will have software to run Java applications as well as some new code from IBM to connect directly with enterprise applications via IBM's MQSeries messaging software. MQSeries is widely used to let applications reliably and accurately exchange information over corporate nets.

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