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To: Allen Benn who wrote (9416)	4/4/2001 9:33:58 AM
From: Don Lloyd	Respond to of 10309

Something involved with this earlier story? edtn.com "Europe draws map for embedded systems and software By Peter Clarke EE Times (03/22/01, 10:52 a.m. EDT) MUNICH, Germany — A major European collaborative R&D program founded by many of the continent's leading systems companies has published a software road map that will be used to help direct approximately $3 billion in future spending and to build consensus in Europe on standards and preferred technologies over the next 10 to 15 years for embedded and distributed systems. The ITEA (Information Technology for European Advancement) program intends to use the "Technology Roadmap for Software Intensive Systems" not only to direct collaborative research spending over the project's life span, but also to help attack a software productivity gap that is growing larger and is predicted to get much worse. ..." "...ITEA was formed in July 1999 by Alcatel, Bosch, Bull, DaimlerChrysler, Italtel, Nokia, Philips, Siemens, Thales and Thomson Multimedia, and has so far committed about $500 million to about 30 multicompany projects. National governments typically fund half a project's cost, with companies paying the rest. ..." Regards, Don

To: Allen Benn who wrote (9416)	4/4/2001 10:49:59 AM
From: Starlight	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10309

I'm anxiously awaiting the call. Could this have something to do with the Embedded Systems Conference which starts next week? Might they be exhibiting something new they're going to tell us about?

To: Allen Benn who wrote (9416)	4/4/2001 1:01:34 PM
From: lkj	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10309

Hi Allen, I am absolutely clueless about this. My first thought was a buyout by an international player, but we have talked about how difficult it was for anyone besides Intel and SUN to acquire WRS. Even for the less remote candidates such as Cisco and Microsoft, there is no candidate abroad. I don't see a general alliance with an Alcatel or BMW justifying such a conference call. If I had to take a shot, I would say that it's Symbian dumping EPOC, switching to VxWorks. But neither is this a great news. Symbian is falling apart. Best regards, Khan