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To: EJhonsa who wrote (31456)	9/11/2000 10:16:50 PM
From: voop	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Hey Eric I have been waiting for that Certicom "recommendations still to be written" at tsrec.com ever since posted. Are your new duties precluding your doing so? I sure am glad you are posting here. tsrec.com regards Voop

To: EJhonsa who wrote (31456)	9/11/2000 11:11:54 PM
From: the hube	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

I wouldn't count WIND out of the handheld/handset market yet. This white paper at their site makes a guess that EPOC is basically a marketing ploy windriver.com It is difficult to tell if the mobile operating system consortium launched two years ago was born from a management reaction to the software crisis, if it was a plan to create third-party developer momentum, or if it was a marketing campaign to hype market awareness. While the best technology does not always win in the market, the consortium approach is often one of the worst ways to go forward. The consortium’s solution falls well short of meeting the mobile Internet’s requirements in the critical areas of real-time deterministic performance and small footprint. Perhaps the consortium believed that next generation mobile handsets would have greater application requirements and need the support of third party developers like desktop programmers. In this case, a good API and a third-party developer program would naturally have been attractive. Unfortunately, the need for third party developers is limited in next generation devices, because the mobile Internet business model depends on content and connectivity via technologies such as WAP and K-Java, not proprietary third-party applications. The Microsoft and Netscape browser war made this point clear. What OEMs need is not an organizer operating system, but a core real-time foundation and solid development tools so that they and their third-party partners can build next generation devices – a whole range of them – quickly and easily. A Java virtual machine on these devices will allow third party developers to create a wealth of mobile applications. On reflection, with regard to why the mobile operation system consortium was born, the marketing ploy seems the most likely explanation. And in terms of raising awareness of mobile Internet opportunities, its efforts have paid off. Interesting to note that a new version of Motorola's cell phone runs on VxWorks. Ericsson and Nokia also use at least some of Wind's products, as does PALM.