Kunal, with all due respect and deference I have to disagree with you on the issue of the Palm being the saving grace of 3Com. To the contrary, a company should be judged by its whole not on its distinct parts. Again I would like to state with emphasis that it was 3Com that made the Palm what it is today not the makers of Handspring. Did you forget the Dragon ball chip is Motorola's and almost every other component was out-sourced to another company. Even its design was done by an outside company. Yes, it was 3Com's money and wherewithal that enabled this product known as the Palm to reach the success it is today. Prescience, marketing and wherewithal are what enabled the success of the Palm, not not not not not not not not not Handspring. I am absolutely dumbfounded by how naive the public is in accepting the idea the founders of Handsping were the cause of Palms success. This is absolute RUBBISH!!!!!!!!!
Grislee is correct, the real gem is 3Com, nevertheless the Palm is the gem that is currently glittering the most.
3Com's patents, investments, cash, distribution channels and future in the Emerging markets of VoIP,LAN telephony, Wireless,Broadband and Home Networking are all gems in the rough that will soon glitter like the Palm. |
