>>...Frys...<<
never heard of Frys. What part of the country is that in?
What impresses me about the Palms is its partnership with
Oracle and making it a mobile unit. This combination
has to be revolutionary to put it mildly. Sales people
and others will have a workstation at their finger tips.
Anywhere's from the CEO to the janitor will be able to
monitor sales for every McDonald's store in the entire
world....every 15 minutes or whatever time range they need.
I also like the partnership with Oracle because Oracle
is Microsoft's top enemy along with Sun. So, Oracle will definitely
do it's share to make sure that the Windows CE operating
system does not
become the world's operating system as NT and Windows 95,98
have been. Oracle has learned it's lesson. I would think
they'll do anything to make sure the Palm Pilot is successful.
AND make sure that 3Com doesn't screw up, or somebody steals
their edge on this thing.
Another incredible thing about the Palm Pilot, is they have
thousands of hackers who have created free software for
the Palm Pilot. Same concept as Linux, Perl, X-windows,
Apache, etc, if you're into the software business. This
is the freeware software concept that's starting to grow
pretty fast again as of recent.
Just think, it may be the first time that something can beat
a Microsoft software product.<gg> I like Microsoft. I own
their shares, but I would love to own a company that could
compete against them on the same level....ok, enough dreaming<ggg>
joe
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