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To: Moonray who wrote (28837)	3/8/1999 12:28:00 PM
From: Shroder Wertheim (Hijacked)	Respond to of 45548

Can CE Catch the Palm Platform? - Not easy task unless 3COM becoming complacent. CE is designed to handle an array of devices, not just for handheld devices, so by default, it does not handle well. MSFT OS has never be able to support more than one processor well. Example is NT to support INTEL, DEC Alpha and MIPS. NT supports MIPS bad, supports Alpha OK. Today MIPS/NT are gone, Alpha/NT is very limited. CE PDAs has many different processors, the applications on one CE PDA device can not run on other CE PDA if it has different processor. CE can not run off-the-shelf Windows applications, which limits MSFT advantage. Palm has a huge lead in the available software, which is what count. Other than Casio, no CE hardware vendor makes money, which makes it hard for the hardware vendor to compete in the long run.