Recent advances in hardware technologies, such as portable computers and wireless communication networks, have led to the emergence of mobile computing systems. No one challenges the idea that mobile computing offers many opportunities for research within the Computer Science area. However, one could ask are there really any new database problems introduced when a mobile computing environment is assumed. We feel that the status of data management in mobile computing is similar to that of distributed data management versus centralized data management in the late 60s. Namely that many of the issues are the same, but the solutions are different. We use this as the basis by which we answer the above question. We concentrate on discussing the differences between data management solutions in a mobile computing environment and those in a distributed database environment.