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To: elmatador who wrote (4641)	12/17/2001 8:28:31 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Ya got me.

To: elmatador who wrote (4641)	12/18/2001 9:23:03 PM
From: Dexter Lives On	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

I'm a little surprised they got IBM in on this - the world really fears Microsoft - if they were looking for evidence of a monopoly, the workarounds by these groups of companies should be sufficient for any reasonable court :#>. Rob Sun Microsystems, Oracle, IBM Join Nokia Cell Pact (Update2) By Dan Goodin Dallas, Dec. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Nokia Oyj, the biggest cell- phone maker, said its initiative for creating an open framework to let wireless phones work on multiple networks received support from Sun Microsystems Inc. and five other software companies. BEA Systems Inc., Borland Software Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., International Business Machines Corp. and Oracle Corp. also joined the pact, which is known as the Open Mobile Architecture Initiative, said Niklas Savander, vice president of strategy, marketing and sales at Nokia Mobile Software. The initiative is designed to allow a wide variety of cell phones to interoperate using Sun's Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition software. After demand for personal computers dropped this year for the first time in 15 years, many companies are eager to find new ways for people to tap in to the Internet. Cell phones now run on a patchwork of proprietary technologies that work together poorly or not at all, hampering cell-phone makers' ability to provide an alternative, analysts say. ``The phone arena is chaos,'' because software developers must write applications conforming to so many competing standards, said Ken Dulaney, vice president of mobile computing at Gartner Group Inc. in San Jose, California. He said the initiative is probably a preemptive attempt to keep Microsoft Corp. from moving into mobile phones the way it has moved into other markets, such as enterprise computing. Mike Wehrs, director of standards and technology in Microsoft's mobility group, said it's unlikely the largest software company will join the alliance. ``Many of the people in that release are people we're working with'' on separate cellular partnerships, he said. Wehrs declined to specify which companies are collaborating with Microsoft. ... quote.bloomberg.com