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To: Scott C. Lemon who wrote (6592)	3/9/2000 7:49:00 AM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

EPOC by Psion..."This appears to be the real front runner in the space, from my point of view. Symbian has done a great job of integrating, not only their own application development platform, but also Java. Most recently I read an article where Palm and Symbian are working together to allow the EPOCH OS to support Palm applications." Scott- Your comment above was interesting/timely to me. Which brings up another investment idea that is, no doubt, high risk. But a company I've been following for years called Citrix Systems(sym:CTXS) has a way to, for lack of a better word, fool a wireless device into thinking it has a full blown wired-LAN connection to a server. There is some very good information on the Citrix thread and the Citrix website so I won't go into details other than the press release below. But I wanted to ask you if you can add some color to your statement above. I know little about the handheld, cell phone, PDA market. I am curious as to why, on the one hand you say you think miniaturization of the PC will allow full blown PC operating systems(ie Windows) to exsist on handhelds, yet you sound as if another OS devoted especially to handhelds is needed? Maybe you just mean as a stop gap measure? BTW I happen to believe that miniaturization will also solve the handheld/palm OS dilemma too. Have you ever seen/used the Sharp Mobilon w/built in camera...well I went to their website and apparently they have discontinued it so I can't link you to a photo. But it was not much bigger than a cell phone but ran Win98 and had a fantastic mini-screen. Anyway, so much for that product. But it did show that it's almost possible to miniaturize the computer today. If there wasn't such a general hatred for Microsoft, I wonder how many competing handheld OS there would be out there. -MikeM(From Florida) *********************** Psion Implements Citrix on Symbian LONDON, Feb 24- British palm-top computer group Psion Plc said on Thursday it was implementing U.S. Citrix Systems Inc's independent computing architecture(ICA) on the Symbian platform. Symbian is a joint venture between Psion and several leading cellphone industry giants developing next generation equipment. Psion said ICA was the emerging industry standard for server-based computing.** Psion Enterprise Computing's commercial director Claes Bergstedt said the announcement ``really opens the gates for mobile e-business strategies. Support for Citrix' ICA lowers the barriers for customers that want to go mobile.' Citrix iBusiness vice-president Chris Phoenix said ``Psion's incorporation of ICA in its mobile devices strengthens our strategy of providing digital independence by enabling users to access business-critical information from any device, anywhere in the world.' biz.yahoo.com