Re: Palm PDA <--> as/400

["Steve Richter" <srichter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeffrey,

True, the hardware end is open. I hope for their sake that when palm
releases a new os, that they keep the hardware vendors fully informed so
they can add new features without delay and incompatibility.

The article says palm lost a lot of money because their new hardware was
announced, sales of the existing palm devices slowed considerably and then
the new hardware was then not delivered on time. A $400 million writeoff
followed.

If Palm was just in the os business, they would not have lost all that money
and they could focus on improving their os.

-Steve


----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey Silberberg <jsilberberg@mindspring.com>
To: midrange-l@midrange.com <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Date: Friday, September 07, 2001 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: Palm PDA <--> as/400


>Steve,
>
>        I have not had time to read the article yet. But from where I sit
>this is far from the truth. You have Handspring, Palm, IBM, Kyocera
>all doing things on the OS.
>
>        Palm, in fact just split into a separate software / hardware
>division...
>
>        But, hey with a WinCE you will get to Authenticate each new
>location,
>the same as XP will do each new configuration  :-)
>
>Latter,
>Jeffrey M. Silberberg
>Independent Consultant
>CompuDesigns, Inc.
>Atlanta, GA.
>
>AS SOON AS I KNOW THE ANSWERS
>THEY CHANGE THE QUESTIONS
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Steve Richter <srichter@AutoCoder.com>
>To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
>Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 1:40 PM
>Subject: Re: Palm PDA <--> as/400
>
>
>> A front page article in the wall street journal today re palm and its
>recent
>> problems.
>>
>> Looks like palm is blowing its lead. They think they can do it all.
>hardware
>> and software.  End result:  palm market share down, windows pocket pc up.
>>
>> Another example, ( apple, palm, our as400 ) where a platform that has the
>> hardware and software controlled by the same entity is at a long term
>> disadvantage to a platform where the os is controled by one company and
>the
>> hardware by another.
>>
>> Steve Richter
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Hatzenbeler, Tim <thatzenbeler@clinitech.net>
>> To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com' <midrange-l@midrange.com>
>> Date: Friday, September 07, 2001 12:55 PM
>> Subject: Palm PDA <--> as/400
>>
>>
>> >This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not
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>> >I was asked to create a small portable version of an applications that I
>> >have on our as/400, but for a palm pda...
>> >
>> >I was wondering if anybody has tried it... Writing the app, doesn't look
>> too
>> >hard, but transferring the database or a subset of the data ie: select *
>> >from ..... where user = 'tim' or being able to push the changed data
back
>> to
>> >the as/400 to be resynced into the master files, is where I'm stuck...
>> >
>> >Any help, ideas or code would be tremendously appreciated...
>> >
>> >p.s.  if this is off (list) topic, please e-mail me directly...  Thanks,
>> >again...tim
>> >
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