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To: Rich Bloem who wrote (2815)	10/29/1999 6:05:00 AM
From: John Biddle	Respond to of 13582

Choosing Accelerated Technology's Nucleus PLUS kernel was an important move for SK Telecom atinucleus.com ). The company saved money because they did not pay royalty fees for each SKY cell phone produced and sold. And in a society where virtually everyone owns a cell phone, royalty fees add up fast! The optimized flexibility of Nucleus PLUS, provided with full source code, gave developers the edge they needed to design a cellular phone and have it to market faster than the competition, resulting in SK Telecom recognized as the first company to bring worldwide CDMA technology to Korea. "We chose Nucleus PLUS because of the no royalty fees policy. Some of the CDMA cellular phone companies in Korea have major complaints because they have to deal with the problem of run-time royalty fees," said Juno Choi, Senior Research Engineer for the ITM Engineering Team, SK Telecom. "Accelerated Technology has a good license policy and also provides the source code. Additionally, we ported quickly to our target system with Nucleus PLUS." No need to panic here. This has nothing to do with royalties paid to the Q. Every cellphone has an RTOS (Real Time Operating System) built in, and most companies license a product like VxWorks from another vendor like Wind River Systems. Accelerated has a different model for selling their RTOS Nucleus Plus which does not include royalties for each product sold which includes their kernal. Below are two links from the Wind River thread which you may find interesting, though they do not specifically answer your implied question. 127.0.0.1:3456/SI/~wsapi/investor/reply-9989163 127.0.0.1:3456/SI/~wsapi/investor/reply-11321804