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To: DaveMG who wrote (18318)	11/13/1998 5:58:00 PM
From: limtex	Respond to of 152472

DMG and all - Just looked at the Blue Tooth site..............just seen the partners.. what on earth is a nice company like IBM doing in company with those guys? Regards, L

To: DaveMG who wrote (18318)	11/13/1998 6:44:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 152472

DaveMG, GSM>CDMA; Finance Home - Yahoo! Top:Business and Finance:Stocks:Technology:Communications Equipment:QCOM (QUALCOMM, Inc.) Help - Add to My Yahoo! - Sign Out CDMA vs GSM by: genedabber 10975 of 10978 CDMA Operators Continue Build Outs in US (BUSINESS WIRE) -- According to a daily national newspaper in the United States, US GSM operators are experiencing difficulties with raising capital, resulting in limited coverage. An article dated Nov. 4, 1998, in USA Today highlighted one of the many reasons why these carriers are facing severe financial issues: "Unlike Sprint PCS, which have coast-to-coast networks and offer popular flat-rate nationwide pricing plans, GSM carriers don't have a nationwide network and can't afford to build one, analysts say. GSM isn't even available in several major U.S.cities." On the other hand, cdmaOne, known as the most dominant digital wireless standard in the United States, is continuing on the fast track, both in terms of second and third generation (3G) service offerings. Presently, there are more than 16 million global cdmaOne subscribers and more than 4.5 million subscribers in North America. Analysts project worldwide subscribers to surpass 19 million by the end of 1998. Posted: Nov 13 1998 4:24PM EST as a reply to: Msg 10959 by horselist_horseman Free real-time quotes for members and customers! Click here! Related Links Quote Profile Research Insider Go to: Start \| Most Recent \| Msg #: All Boards & Topics Authors Terms and Conditions Yahoo! is a trademark of Yahoo! Inc. Copyright © 1994-98 Yahoo! All Rights Reserved.

To: DaveMG who wrote (18318)	11/14/1998 6:07:00 PM
From: DaveMG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

It looks like we're going to start hearing a lot about this: nytimes.com Internal Memo Shows Microsoft Executives' Concern Over Free Software By AMY HARMON and JOHN MARKOFF n internal memorandum reflecting the views of some of Microsoft Corp.'s top executives and software development managers reveals deep concern about the threat of free software and proposes a number of strategies for competing against free programs that have recently been gaining in popularity. The memo warns that the quality of free software can meet or exceed that of commercial programs and describes it as a potentially serious threat to Microsoft. The document was sent anonymously last week to Eric Raymond, a key figure in a loosely knit group of software developers who collaboratively create and distribute free programs ranging from operating systems to Web browsers. Microsoft executives acknowledged on Monday that the document was authentic. Edmund Muth, Microsoft's Enterprise Marketing Group manager, said it had been widely disseminated among employees who were interested in the threat posed to Microsoft by Linux, a highly regarded version of the Unix operating system that is distributed free. While Muth took issue with some of the memo's points, he said that its author, Vinod Valloppillil, a Microsoft software engineer, was a close friend and that he agreed with most aspects of his analysis. In addition to acknowledging that free programs can compete with commercial software in terms of quality, the memorandum calls the free software movement a "long-term credible" threat and warns that employing a traditional Microsoft marketing strategy known as "FUD," an acronym for "fear, uncertainty and doubt," will not succeed against the developers of free software. The memorandum also voices concern that Linux is rapidly becoming the dominant version of Unix for computers powered by Intel microprocessors. The competitive issues, the note warns, go beyond the fact that the software is free. It is also part of the open-source software, or O.S.S., movement, which encourages widespread, rapid development efforts by making the source code -- that is, the original lines of code written by programmers -- readily available to anyone. This enables programmers the world over to continually write or suggest improvements or to warn of bugs that need to be fixed. The memorandum notes that open software presents a threat because of its ability to mobilize thousands of programmers. "The ability of the O.S.S. process to collect and harness the collective I.Q. of thousands of individuals across the Internet is simply amazing," the memo states. "More importantly, O.S.S. evangelization scales with the size of the Internet much faster than our own evangelization efforts appear to scale." In computer-speak, this means that the growth of the Internet is producing a far more efficient medium for collaboration on open programming than for marketing traditional, proprietary software. The memo is on the Web at opensource.org with annotations by Raymond, the author of a treatise in defense of free software titled "The Cathedral and the Bazaar." Its appearance touched off immediate speculation among programmers both about the timing of the leak and the content of the memorandum. Microsoft is locked in a court battle with the U.S. Justice Department over business practices it has developed around its monopoly operating system, Windows. On Monday, a number of the company's critics speculated that the release of the memo might be timed to suggest that while Windows is shipped on more than 90 percent of all personal computers sold today -- and while Microsoft programs dominate dozens of markets -- the software giant faces real competition.