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To: DaveMG who wrote (1137)	11/5/1998 3:08:00 PM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

That is possible. But more likely is that the open standard will win over the more proprietary standard. Symbian already has backers from Toshiba to Oracle to all of the major wireless manufacturers. Is the global IT community going to prefer Qualcomm as an alternative to a dozen giant manufacturers? Is a 4 billion dollar company more reliable than a dozen 10-50 billion dollar companies? There is a good reason Microsoft came to Qualcomm only after it failed to get bigger companies interested - credibility. A standard won't fly unless it can offer several major manufacturers competing in products and keeping costs down. I doubt that the PC makers are so in love in Microsoft that they would give it yet another way to squeeze them. Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola are already competing in trying to bring the first Symbian phone to market by 3Q 1999. There is strong inbuilt competition in the Symbian camp. Would PC companies rather hand over their checkbooks to Qcom? Without competition Qualcomm would have complete pricing power. We have already seen all of the major PC (including HP and CPQ), printer and fax companies support the Bluetooth initiative, of which Nokia and Ericsson are founding members. Bluetooth and Symbian are similar open, widely supported inititatives crossing the boundaries of mobile telesom and PC industry. The age of proprietary standards is over... backlash against them is uniting manufacturers under the flags of Bluetooth and Symbian. Tero