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Technology Stocks : PALM - The rebirth of Palm Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: renard fox who wrote (567)	4/18/2000 5:08:00 PM
From: BillHoo	Respond to of 6784

<<... please explain to us poor techno-challenged suckers how reliable the CE OS>> True conversation I heard on the M4 bus while going up Madison Ave., NYC in November 1999. Tech 1: Man I've made so much money doing NT work this year, it's unbelievable. Tech 2: Yea, I did ten hours overtime on a server last night. Tech 1: I think I'm going to buy the new Palm Pilot and maybe a Windows CE device. Tech 2: CE? What's that? Tech 1: It's like the Palm Pilot except it looks like Windows. Tech 2: Is that any good? Tech 1: It's Windows. Tech 2: So? What does that mean? Tech 1: It's Windows. It crashes like Windows too. Other than that, I suspect this will be just like MSFT's rehash of Pocket Windows 1.0 which was later re-released as Windows CE. Palm should be wary for the sake of keeping their edge, however, with the corporate experience I have seen with CE devices in particular the Compaq Aero... People play with it for a few days, then throw it in a drawer and forget about it. In my company the Palm is used by 95 percent of PDA users. I also see that the Palm has around 83 percent of the market and has brokered deals with Yahoo and Dell for wireless internet stuff. I see a good future for this product. I I hadn't bought CSCO today, I might consider the Palm. Good luck folks, maybe you'll see some of my smart-alecky posts later on. -Bill_H