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To: Mats Ericsson who wrote (503)	2/27/1999 5:33:00 AM
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starfish/MOT - Competitor - news Sat, 27 Feb 1999, 5:26am EST Bloomberg, Starfish Software's Kahn Says He Plans to Remain at Motorola Starfish Software's Kahn Says He Plans to Remain at Motorola San Francisco, California, Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Starfish Software Inc. Chief Executive Philippe Kahn said he intends to stay at Motorola Inc., the No. 2 maker of cellular phones, which acquired Starfish last year. ''I am 100 percent committed to making Starfish work for Motorola. I have no other plans,'' said Kahn, who founded software tool maker Borland International Inc., which is now called Inprise Corp. ''I am very excited about what we're doing.'' Motorola acquired Starfish in July as part of a push to develop products to win back market share from No. 1 cell-phone maker Nokia Oyj of Finland. There had been speculation that Kahn would leave because he is involved as an advisor and investor in several closely held companies. Kahn said that he has not noticed any change in Starfish's operations since it was acquired by Schaumburg, Illinois-based Motorola. ''Starfish is an independent subsidiary of Motorola. I don't even know who my boss is,'' Kahn said. He said the independence is part of Motorola's commitment to Scotts Valley, California- based Starfish. Kahn said Motorola is aware of his involvement with other companies. ''I try to nurture very small companies and help them do new things.'' He declined to talk about what his other companies were doing. ''We want to surprise you,'' he said. New Product Later this year, Motorola plans to release a mobile organizer developed by Starfish that attaches to Motorola's popular StarTac phones. The organizers will ship in May, said Kahn, who was speaking at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. Motorola is working on two different approaches for a connected world where phones, electronic organizers, computers and pagers will all be linked. It's working on a method that Kahn called the ''Swiss Army knife approach'' that features a single device with many different features, such as voice capabilities, an organizer and a keyboard. The company is also working on a second, ''clip-on'' approach in which multiple devices will communicate with each other. For example, users would be able to update information on their personal computer by entering it into their Palm Pilot organizer or cell phone. Motorola fell 1 3/8 to 70 1/4