Presence and IntComm WG

[Jeremy George <>]

  Ego te absolvo.

  Given the general interest on yesterday's call in handsets, I think we
should still keep them on the radar screen, even it we have to buy
fewer.  Does Clarisys also only work with Windows, or will it work with
Linux, too?  If it's Windows-only, it might be worth trying to get a feel
for relative value vis a vis the Plantronics model Steve mentioned.

  Whatever happens in handsetland, I'd like to press forward with some
form of Linux-capable pda for ~1/2 the money.  We should keep in mind
that one of the things we might poke at is: what is the UA of the next
~20 years going to look like?  It may not be exactly like today's iPAQs,
but it seems to me worth our time (& $) to get some experience.

  You know, there is an interesting form of economics going on here.
We're given $5K and it may take more value than that in our time to 
figure out how to spend it :)

- Jeremy


On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Rork, Joseph (J.P.) wrote:

> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 17:26:05 -0500
> From: "Rork, Joseph (J.P.)" 
> <>
> Reply-To: 
> 
> To: 
> "''"
>  
> <>
> Subject: [wg-pic] Math
> 
> Apparently, I should have taken some cold medicine or something, my cold is 
> affecting my ability to do math.  Apparently 100 handsets at $68 a piece is 
> not less then $2,500.  With that kind of math, I could qualify to be the 
> CEO at Enron, but that is about it.  So here is the real scoop:
> 
> First the bad news, the Clarisys does not support Mac.  And my vendor only 
> has about 30 left anyways.
> Good news, the new generation Clarisys should be out by the time we need 
> them, but they still don't support Mac, and we still can't get 100 of them 
> for $2,500.
> 
> It seems to me that since my math was so off (I have no idea what I was 
> thinking), we don't need to look into purchasing any PDA's.  
> 
> Let's guess a ratio of Mac to PC users so that I can determine how many 
> handsets to order, and we can go from there.
> 
> Thanks,
> joe
> 

--