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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: dybdahl who wrote (56984)	4/1/2001 10:05:41 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Lars - I'm not sure I understand your post. Linux on the iPaq is a lab experiment and none of the office-compatible programs are available for iPaq today except when using the Microsoft OS. I was making a point about functionality - I want my PDA to be able to do the things I need to do most commonly for business reasons - and that is primarily information exchange via email. I can get a pretty clean email experience with a RIM Blackberry except I can not read attachments. I should be able to read and review those attachments whether I am on a desktop, a laptop or a handheld. People sending me things should not need to be aware of which of those devices I am currently responding from. I suppose it should be possible to have an iPaq with Linux and some program which reads and displays word and excel documents - at least the iPaq has the compute horsepower and display capability to actually run applications like that. Palm does not come close. I had a Palm a ways back but quit using it after a few weeks because the functionality was too limited. It did not even do real time calendar synchronization let alone capable email. They never produced a product aimed at the business user market currently served by laptop and notebook machines.