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 My meeting with the CEO of OQO
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Trev
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Posted - Feb 01 2005 :  8:59:30 PM  Show Profile  Visit Trev's Homepage  Send Trev an AOL message  Send Trev an ICQ Message  Click to see Trev's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
Yesterday I met the CEO of OQO, Jory Bell. He spoke to my leadership and management course about starting up OQO and what it's like to be CEO of a high-tech startup. Very interesting stuff.

I asked him a question about OQO intends to compete against the othr UPCs, flybook, flipstart and u750. He felt that their defense against competition lied in their superior architecture and an overall better company. He also believes that their combination of the dell business model and apple's innovation (Jory has worked for both IBM and Apple) will put them ahead and keep them ahead.

After class I approached him and introduced myself. We talked about the upc platform. I asked him if he was interested in creating a thin client OQO with windows xpe and he said that it was one avenue they were looking at. I also asked him about Windows Anywhere thinking that he would be there, but he didn't even know about the conference. I'm surprised they weren't invited since the OQO is a great example of a mobile windows platform.

Overall it was really great to chat with him. He's definitely a very impressive guy. I think OQO will keep on going.


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obscurite
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Posted - Feb 02 2005 :  09:53:07 AM  Show Profile  Send obscurite an AOL message  Click to see obscurite's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
I had the opportunity to meet with their SVP Director of Business Development last year for a hands on OQO demo (pre-release). I had been impressed with their ambition (meeting up with a lot of people from a lot of companies), but I wasn't too thrilled with the prototype. It was hot, slow, and kind of annoying to use.

In the end, my company declined the demo unit because of the large security deposit required (if the unit was not returned within a certain amount of time), although it was really cool of OQO to even offer!

I think they're a great company, with a lot of ambition and a personal touch, but they need to update their product. I'm sure they're working on it!

-Daniel
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TabletsRule
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Posted - Dec 07 2005 :  7:48:08 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
that is so awesome trev! it must be quite an honor to be able to talk to a CEO of a good business!
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wraith808
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Posted - Dec 07 2005 :  8:19:57 PM  Show Profile  Visit wraith808's Homepage  Send wraith808 an AOL message  Send wraith808 an ICQ Message  Click to see wraith808's MSN Messenger address  Send wraith808 a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
Do we have rules on necroposting? This thread was old and dead by 10 months... doesn't seem replyable especially with a reply like this...
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Trev
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Posted - Dec 07 2005 :  11:15:05 PM  Show Profile  Visit Trev's Homepage  Send Trev an AOL message  Send Trev an ICQ Message  Click to see Trev's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
I'm just as surprised.


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TabletsRule
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Posted - Dec 08 2005 :  03:36:59 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
sorry my bad guys
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jim.dvorak
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Posted - May 04 2006 :  09:41:31 AM  Show Profile  Visit jim.dvorak's Homepage  Click to see jim.dvorak's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
Check out OQO's O1+
http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=233

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EMRhelp.org
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Posted - May 05 2006 :  3:04:37 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
bad URL. it's
http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=2684
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