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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (102443)	4/30/2000 4:14:00 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

Glenn: This was, ultimately, the point I was trying to make with Eric: "Such bravado aside, many believe Microsoft will waste valuable resources fighting an uphill battle. Analysts are divided over whether Microsoft will eventually win, but many are questioning what price the company will pay in the meantime. ``This (breakup proposal) is probably almost the best-case scenario for Microsoft. It could be a lot worse than this and if they continue to fight the break-up it is likely to get a lot worse,'' said Rob Enderle, an analyst with technology research firm Giga Information Group." biz.yahoo.com

To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (102443)	5/1/2000 8:24:00 AM
From: Bearded One	Respond to of 164684

How is Palm making their OS proprietary? They licensed it to a competitor of theirs, the Handspring Visor. You may be confusing the fact that Compaq, HP, et. al., all signed up with Microsoft like the craven lapdogs they are.

To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (102443)	5/1/2000 10:08:00 AM
From: Sam Citron	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

>>Micrsoft's PDA software will be as good as any What makes you so sure? MSFT is keeping its source code proprietary. How can they possibly compete against an open source Palm OS that already has 85% market share? Palm has thousands of independent software developers competing to write code for this exploding platform. MSFT will struggle valiantly to extend their domain from desktop to PDA and should continue to improve on CE, but I doubt they will ever achieve market share parity with Palm OS. Psion's Symbian is one to watch as well. BTW, which PDA did you end up buying? I bought a Palm IIIc last week. It has more intelligence per ounce than any device I've ever owned and I've owned many. (The HP LX100 I have used since 1992 died last week due to a component failure which caused a short on the motherboard.) (disclosure: long COMS)