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To: DaveMG who wrote (1154)	11/6/1998 3:50:00 PM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 34857

C'mon... skip the personal attacks, this is Nokia thread. We don't do that here. Symbian already has companies like Philips affiliated to it. Qcom could be aboard, they are just opting for a consortium where they are the only mobile telecom company. That's where the obvious power hunger comes in. Motorola spurned Microsoft for a reason - any company's resources are limited. Creating Symbian products is going to be a huge technological challenge. Either you get with the program now or you will be two steps behind the companies involved later on. Symbian's licensing fees will be split by at least four companies, possibly five if Sun takes a stake as has been hinted. Nobody gets too powerful, nobody gets to dominate the future of mobile telecom. Symbian relies heavily on Java, BTW. It is designed to be as open as possible. If I know anything about Microsoft they will not build their own software on the open Java platform - they will use some corrupt version of Java designed for Windows. They have already used this approach to damage Java. Of course Qualcomm can license Epoc later. But it will lose the first to market advantage if it doesn't start develpment of Symbian stuff now... the first products will be on market within 12 months. Many companies are members of Bluetooth - but the advantage belongs to founding members like Nokia who get their products first to market. I see the mobile telecom industry fighting against the Microsoft attempt to engulf them. I see one company who shares Microsoft's vision of narrowly proprietary future. I see Java as a universal, open platform that will unite IT and mobile telecom markets - but only if Microsoft can be stopped. If this is black and white, so be it. Linux is making huge gains in the server market. This OS is widely deemed superior to NT. It was created in Helsinki, of course. Nokia knows Linux possibly better than any other major company and is hopefully able to leverage that to create an open, non-proprietary mobile telecom/server solutions. There is a possibility of a Finnish pincer movement to block Microsoft from engulfing wireless integration of servers to other IT solutions. Nokia has shown that it is not interested in licensing fees - Bluetooth is practically patent free. Helsinki might be the last line of defence against the darkness spreading from Seattle. A future where open competition will decide who succeeds - this is what Bluetooth, Java, Symbian and Linux promise. The Finnish challenge to companies leveraging their monopoly position to squash competition may be the brightest hope mobile telecom industry has. If this sounds hard to stomach, skip my posts. I can't ignore this vital topic just because it creates an illusion of national bias in my posts. Tero