Yogi lives in Canada, and his real name is Nick Tidd.
See article below for confirmation. If it talks like a duck, walks like a duck, etc., and this appears to be the Yogi-duck....
Examples of Yogi-speak--
Tidd told a Vancouver Board of Trade meeting Wednesday the success of integrated networks that handle computer data, telephone and video signals will depend on simplicity, reliability and mobility.
Users "want to turn it on, they want to have it work and they don't care about anything else," he said....
With reliable wireless access, users won't need to carry around massive repositories of data on hard drives. Handheld or even wearable devices could instantly link them to remote servers.
"It's more about how do I access that repository of data," said Tidd. "I don't need to physically have it with me."....
And the final proof, if any was needed: Tidd supports efforts in Parliament to win tax exemptions on stock option packages, a common perk offered to in-demand computer industry professionals. Many leave for the United States because lucrative stock options in start-up firms offer a high payoff potential.
"That's really what drives high-tech, it is the defining culture," said Tidd.
As Yogi says, constantly, money is what makes the world go round.
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ca.dailynews.yahoo.com
Yahoo! Canada News
Technology Headlines
Wednesday December 15 7:57 PM ET
Palm Pilot's success left 3Com in the shadows
VANCOUVER (CP) - 3Com Corp., which proved Microsoft Corp (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news). is not an all-conquering monolith, is trying to refocus on its far bigger but much lower-profile core business, the head of its Canadian subsidiary says.
U.S.-based 3Com is a $6-billion US computer networks developer and manager, but its identity has been overshadowed by one product that accounts for only about 10 per cent of its revenue.
"People always say, 'Oh, 3Com, the Palm company," 3Com Canada president Nick Tidd said in an interview Wednesday.
The trendy Palm Pilot line of personal digital organizers introduced in 1996 dominates the handheld computer segment, including competitors that use Microsoft's scaled down Windows CE operating system.
3Com has sold more than five million Palm products worldwide. It has 86 per cent of the Canadian market for electronic organizers, Tidd said, adding that's the largest per capita installation in the world.
"The amazing thing is over the course of the last two years, the success of Palm has very much been the demise of 3Com from a branding perspective," Tidd said.
The company's answer has been to spin off Palm into a separate, publicly traded unit launched Tuesday.
The move will facilitate alliances with firms such as Sony, Nokia, Motorola and America Online, which will design products such as cellular phones and wireless Internet software around Palm's open operating system.
It will also allow 3Com to concentrate on its much bigger networking business, especially the development of wireless, computer and telephone networks for business and home use, said Tidd.
3Com's Palm line beat Microsoft-based organizers to market by more than a year. But Tidd credits its success to aggressive promotion of its open-architecture operating system, which allows other software developers to more easily design applications that run on Palm units.
The number of developers designing Palm-based products has mushroomed to more than 17,000 from 500 initially, said Tidd.
Windows was also never designed to be used easily in hand-held applications, Tidd added.
"You can't take Windows and shrink it - it's been proven time and again," he said.
Tidd told a Vancouver Board of Trade meeting Wednesday the success of integrated networks that handle computer data, telephone and video signals will depend on simplicity, reliability and mobility.
Users "want to turn it on, they want to have it work and they don't care about anything else," he said.
The growth of wireless networks is expected to accelerate thanks to the increasing number of true portable computers and the
recent advent of standardization in wireless data signals, said Tidd.
With reliable wireless access, users won't need to carry around massive repositories of data on hard drives. Handheld or even
wearable devices could instantly link them to remote servers.
"It's more about how do I access that repository of data," said Tidd. "I don't need to physically have it with me."
3Com, which connects 52 per cent of Canadians to the Internet in some form, employs about 100 people in its Canadian
subsidiary based in Burlington, Ont.
In the last nine months, 3Com has spent $39 million US acquiring two Canadian network developers - Lanworks Technologies
and LANSource Technologies.
Tidd said there are no plans to move any of the new acquisitions' staff or any of 3Com Canada's other research and
development staff to the United States.
"We intend on keeping those resources in Canada," he said.
Higher corporate and personal taxes are a factor to consider when locating in Canada, said Tidd. But it's a necessary tradeoff
for what Tidd, a longtime landed immigrant from the United States, considers a better quality of life here.
"I think the attraction to the United States from a monetary perspective, I find more and more folks are finding that short-term,"
he said.
However, Tidd supports efforts in Parliament to win tax exemptions on stock option packages, a common perk offered to
in-demand computer industry professionals. Many leave for the United States because lucrative stock options in start-up firms
offer a high payoff potential.
"That's really what drives high-tech, it is the defining culture," said Tidd.
"That's why people are leaving Canada to join U.S. startups. They see an upside in the stock options. You're at a disadvantage in Canada."
Copyright ¸ 1999 Canadian Press Limited.
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