Friday, October 18, 2002
Pocket PCs advance on Palm
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 12:40 AM
http://smh.com.au/articles/2002/10/13/1034222638972.html
Trevor Ho wrote in with an article from an Australian Web site that talks about the inroads Pocket PCs are making, specifically in the enterprise market. It's an interesting read, because so many of these large deployments are off our radar screen. We see Palm products dominating at retail, but if enterprise customers are deploying Pocket PCs in large numbers based on .Net solutions, does Palm have a chance of competing there?
"Remember WordPerfect? Remember Lotus 1-2-3? How about Visicalc? Could it be possible that in a few years from now, we're asking: remember Palm? If the volume and adoption of pocket-PC hardware and software is any measure, this operating system is poised to write a new chapter on how we use computers.
The inevitability of pocket-PC dominance stems from its continuous incorporation into the workplace - everything from how the world's biggest courier company, UPS, delivers 13.6 million packages every day, to how the City of Melbourne cares for its $500 million worth of trees."
Trevor Ho wrote in with an article from an Australian Web site that talks about the inroads Pocket PCs are making, specifically in the enterprise market. It's an interesting read, because so many of these large deployments are off our radar screen. We see Palm products dominating at retail, but if enterprise customers are deploying Pocket PCs in large numbers based on .Net solutions, does Palm have a chance of competing there?
"Remember WordPerfect? Remember Lotus 1-2-3? How about Visicalc? Could it be possible that in a few years from now, we're asking: remember Palm? If the volume and adoption of pocket-PC hardware and software is any measure, this operating system is poised to write a new chapter on how we use computers.
The inevitability of pocket-PC dominance stems from its continuous incorporation into the workplace - everything from how the world's biggest courier company, UPS, delivers 13.6 million packages every day, to how the City of Melbourne cares for its $500 million worth of trees."
