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To: craig crawford who wrote (19351)7/19/1998 7:51:00 PM
From: joe  Read Replies (3) of 45548
 
Mang and ALL;

Previously, Mang had calculated about 4% revenues from Palm
Pilot...just a guestimate as he said.

We are all curious as to how much of 3Com's revenues the
Palm Pilot is generating. (I'd say about 1/3 the
3Com advertisements I see are for the Palm Pilot)

I have a new figure: 6.00% of revenues for Fiscal 1998.

Here's the math:

5.5billion - total revenues for the year
(got this from IBD interview with Claflin)

($400 + $150)/2 = $275 = average selling price of PP device.

1.2million devices at $275.00 = $330million

$330million/$5.5billion = .06 => 6 % of revenues
for the year.

Another note:

last year, 3Com sold 1.2million, and the forecast is
for 2million this year ==> 66.66% growth for Palm Pilots

Another note:

What Donna Dubinsky and Palm founder Jeff Hawkins will
be doing in the future:

"Dubinsky and Palm founder Jeff Hawkins plan to start a
company that will market consumer devices using the Palm operating software."

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Big competition with MSFT Windows CE coming up. 3Com owns
the Palm operating system.

So, who knows, if 3Com can't ever get it together on the
Network side, they can have a flourishing business with
the future most popular operating system in the world<g>.

(Maybe 3Com is quiet about this so as not to attract attention
from MSFT<g>)
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