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To: SKIP PAUL who wrote (89838)	12/11/2000 1:25:32 AM
From: SKIP PAUL	Respond to of 152472

interactive.wsj.com@1.cgi?paulskp/text/wsjie/data/SB976049993859179195.djm/&d2hconverter=display-d2h&NVP=&template=atlas-srch-searchrecent-nf.tmpl&form=atlas-srch-searchrecent-nf.html&from-and=AND&to-and=AND&sort=Article-Doc-Date+desc&qand=&bool_query=qualcomm&dbname=%26name1%3Ddbname%26name2%3Ddbname%26name3%3Ddbname%26period%3D%3A720&location=article&HI= December 11, 2000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SNIP The server, which had been codenamed "Airstream," isn't due out until the first half of next year. But already, Microsoft and Qualcomm Inc., a San Diego communications company, are making a similar server through a joint venture called Wireless Knowledge Inc. It provides workers access to Microsoft's Outlook -- the large e-mail program used by many businesses -- even when they are away from work. Microsoft says the Wireless Knowledge software should be "easily upgradable" to the mobile-information software. According to Mr. Dulaney, the coming mobile-information server -- designed to dovetail with Wireless Knowledge -- eventually will expand beyond e-mail to also allow workers to use their wireless devices to link up to all forms of Internet content, meaning it could also facilitate mobile commerce. Microsoft says it's still not sure exactly how the server will operate with competing software, such as the Notes e-mail program, made by Lotus Development Corp., part of International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, N.Y. But because Microsoft's Outlook is so ubiquitous, that could give the company an advantage as it tries to peddle its own software.