07-24-2003, 08:00 PM
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Bill Gates Foundation Funds Purchase Of 1,100 Palm Tungsten T2 Handhelds
http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/10862_2238951
"Palm said executives with New York Technology, Achievement, Leadership, Knowledge and Skills (NYTALKS), are buying 1,100 Tungsten T2 handhelds for its three-year program. The statewide school leadership training initiative aimed at superintendents and principals in public and private K-12 schools expects to purchase an additional 1,600 Palm handhelds for the final year of the program, bringing the total to 5,000. NYTALKS is the result of a $7.5 million State Challenge Grant for Leadership Development awarded jointly to the three organizations by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation."
Someone get a memo to Bill please about the mobile device division. :frusty:
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07-24-2003, 08:02 PM
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07-24-2003, 08:03 PM
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Mystic
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Re: Bill Gates Foundation Funds Purchase Of 1,100 Palm Tungsten T2 Handhelds
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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
Someone get a memo to Bill please about the mobile device division. :frusty:
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Bill Gates' foundation gave the money and had no influence on the buying decision. I wonder if the buyers even know the difference between a PalmOS device and a Pocket PC? Pocket PC still suffers badly from a branding recognition problem vs Palm. This sure makes for good press on behalf of the PalmOS zealots.
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07-24-2003, 08:15 PM
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Nice to see someone can give without the strings. The Gates Foundation has given to many diverse causes. In the past they have also been accused of giveing money to buy Apple computers, etc.
Unfortunaly the press, PPCT included, love to pick up on anything that paints the rich and powerful as stupid. Nice to see that Gates' continue to give without the strings and ignore the bad press that will sometimes come out of it.
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07-24-2003, 08:15 PM
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Read this two days ago and could not beleive it. Perhaps Bill & Melinda are too annoyed with soft resets and activesync wows to get schools use PocketPC's.
But as JonnoB said, the foundation has no influence + the products have to be non MS.
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07-24-2003, 08:18 PM
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They have no influence on how and where the money goes? Start donating millions of dollars and see how much influence you suddenly gain.
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07-24-2003, 08:34 PM
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Originally Posted by AZMark
They have no influence on how and where the money goes? Start donating millions of dollars and see how much influence you suddenly gain.
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In that case, I'm willing to bet the buck stops there...
aka "NO FUNDS FOR YOU!"
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07-24-2003, 08:42 PM
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But that's not 'giving.' It's blackmailing.
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07-24-2003, 08:44 PM
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I think as a recipient of funds, you have a duty, even if it was given no strings attached to respect your donors by not doing things that might be embarassing to the donor. AKA, don't bite the hand that feeds you. This was dumb on another level. If they needed PDA's and Gates was such a big donor, they probably could have used his influence to get a better deal on PPC's.
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07-24-2003, 08:51 PM
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Oracle
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:jawdrop: :rotfl: :twak:
I think that about sums up my thoughts on this topic....
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