I think it would be a very power combination.  Most database vendors today
provider a "lite" version to allow data synchronization from the desktop to
the mobile device.  If M is as powerful as I'm beginning to understand, it
is a perfect place for it.  It was originally designed to run on constrained
hardware, making it ideal for mobile and embedded systems programming.  The
big database vendors mobile databases are still bulky and slow.

I was looking at FreeM, and whatever the one at Mumps.org is called, for
this reason.  FreeM looks like it would be easier to port, from my initial
look anyway.

Cheers,

John

The Psion range of organisers always had programability as a big selling
feature, but in practice it just seemed to reduced their rate of decline.

Realistically, for many, many people their handheld is primarily a
detachable interface to MS Outlook - If your app is brilliant, you will
interface with whatever the handheld supports - you will not demand that the
handheld loads an alien OS too.

In practice, for M to 'break out' it would have to layer its functionality
on to recent existing technologies rather than try to drag its own onto the
latest hardware. M(ish) to manipulate an XML document object model would be
good - at no cost to anyone. Also, (a la ADSI) going on to provide standard
interface (for M XML, accessible to an M XMLdom) to access everything that
anyone might ever want to program from the one source would bring the
technology to the language rather then demanding that the langauge
constantly evolves to incorporate every latest fashion.

Hey this sounds like a job for user definable ssvns!! :-))

Paul /)/+)