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To: W.F.Rakecky who wrote (29688)	4/14/1999 1:38:00 PM
From: Mang Cheng	Respond to of 45548

CATCH OF THE DAY: Palm clones: Not a moment too soon Despite the laughable soft-porn "Simply Palm" ads now running, I remain a staunch Palm Pilot fan. In fact, as soon as I "accidentally drop" my retro-chic first-generation PalmPilot, I'm getting one of those fancy new superslim Palm Vs. I've always thought that Palm Computing was running the growth of this platform very well. Certainly, PalmPilots live in more Tumi shoulderbags than do Windows CE machines. But there are rumblings that Palm's Apple-esque licensing arrangements (no clones allowed) have been closing down avenues for market expansion, and that Microsoft's Windows CE has been making important inroads into the enterprise market for handheld computers. So it's appropriate that Robin Abrams, the new president of the Palm Computing division of 3Com and a former VP of worldwide sales at Apple, is opening up the Palm platform to competitive hardware manufacturers. Hopefully, she's doing for Palm what Apple should have done much earlier in its life. And she's doing so from a position of market strength, not weakness. - Rafe Needleman, Editor rafe-needleman@redherring.com LATEST NEWS * Palm opens herring.com FURTHER READING * So far, Windows CE has been unable to unseat the Palm operating system redherring.com