If you're a Palm device user and you really love a certain, absolutely wonderfully designed application, let me know. You can send the details to me at a special email address: ilovemypalmorganizer@palmpower.com.

In future months, we'll run reviews of some of the best and maybe I'll even mention them in my editorials.

Oh, and for those of you curious about how that old Borland evolved, it eventually gobbled up Ashton-Tate, the original big database developer (anyone remember dBASE?). Unfortunately, after eating Ashton-Tate a bit too quickly, the company got indigestion. Eventually Borland changed its name to Inprise and Philipe left to start a new company called Starfish.

But the story doesn't end there. Starfish introduced a modern Sidekick, called Sidekick 99. Starfish also did the synchronization software for the little credit card-sized Franklin Rex. Trivia note: back in the early 1980s, Franklin did an Apple II clone. In any case, back in June, Motorola acquired Philipe Kahn's Starfish for what Motorola president and chief operating officer Bob Growney says is a cash-and-stock deal valued at several hundred million dollars.

There's motivation for you. Build great software.

For more than 20 years, David Gewirtz, the author of Where Have All The Emails Gone? and The Flexible Enterprise, has analyzed current, historical, and emerging issues relating to technology, competitiveness, and policy. David is the Editor-in-Chief of the ZATZ magazines, is the Cyberterrorism Advisor for the International Association for Counterterrorism and Security Professionals, and is a member of the instructional faculty at the University of California, Berkeley extension. He can be reached at david@zatz.com.