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I don't think it is unreasonable to suggest that Sony, like all other companies, is constantly reviewing its strategy and evaluating its options. The dominance of M$ is a real issue for Asian countries according to the press and a group of Asian countries are funding the development of an alternative to M$ OS for PCs. Also given that Sharp are using Linux does not preclude the option for Sony to consider this as a way to differentiate its products and offer what it believes is a better package. Remember in Europe Sony Ericsson have been very successful with Symbian for Smartphones - something that would have been difficult to achieve with Palm OS as this has only recently supported multi tasking.

02-21-2004, 01:59 AM	#4
PDAJah Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: UK Posts: 386	I don't think it is unreasonable to suggest that Sony, like all other companies, is constantly reviewing its strategy and evaluating its options. The dominance of M$ is a real issue for Asian countries according to the press and a group of Asian countries are funding the development of an alternative to M$ OS for PCs. Also given that Sharp are using Linux does not preclude the option for Sony to consider this as a way to differentiate its products and offer what it believes is a better package. Remember in Europe Sony Ericsson have been very successful with Symbian for Smartphones - something that would have been difficult to achieve with Palm OS as this has only recently supported multi tasking. __________________ Jah