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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (1134)11/5/1998 2:00:00 PM
From: tero kuittinen  Read Replies (2) of 34857
 

Dave... Bill was in Helsinki last year begging Nokia to form an alliance with Microsoft. It was pretty pathetic and Ollila would have none of it. Then Bill went to Motorola and tried the same thing. No dice.

And no, Symbian is not just a phone OS: Oracle just jumped aboard and announced a strategic alliance. 97 out of 100 Fortune 100 companies have Oracle databases. Actually, most of the *world's* data resides in Oracle databases. Now there will be a way to link access to that data to mobile Symbian applications and PC's wirelessly. Databases always were Microsoft's weak spot.

Maurice, you know as well as I do that Microsoft demolished the profit margins of PC manufacturers and turned them into commodity businesses. Now this spawn of satan is trying to do the same to the mobile telecom biz... weasel its way into software dominance, then turn that position into a noose around the manufacturers necks. Basically all of the mobile manufacturers will fight this tooth and nail.

The beauty of Symbian is in the fact that it is not controlled by one mobile telecom company so there is no danger of giving an unreasonable advantage to a single company. And it will not be turned into the next tool for world conquest of the Bill. Qualcomm is once again on a crash course with the rest of the industry.

Think that the hostility towards Microsoft doesn't matter? Think again - Oracle just delivered the M/Q alliance its first defeat. I have my ideas about what Sun will do with its crucial position in the server market.

Tero

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