Comments on: Shareholders OK Palm Acquisition and Spin-off

Palm, Inc. and Handspring, Inc. today announced that stockholders of both companies have approved a transaction that transforms the landscape for handheld computing and communications. The transactions are expected to close later today, PalmSource and palmOne begin trading tomorrow on the Nasdaq stock market.

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dickius @ 10/28/2003 4:24:20 PM #

I have nothing to say

Palm Shareholders OK a Marriage of Desperation

Gekko @ 10/28/2003 5:50:43 PM #

http://www.thestreet.com/_tscana/tech/kcswanson/10122898.html

RE: Palm Shareholders OK a Marriage of Desperation

RhinoSteve @ 10/29/2003 4:59:11 PM #

Not a marrage but more like the hot shot high school kid that tried to go on their own (Handspring) getting beaten up buy the boys downtown and coming home. Those in the former Handspring have a lot of wounds to lick and one big piece of lower back pain called Springboard.

Celebration

Strider_mt2k @ 10/28/2003 7:33:27 PM #

To celebrate, they hired 5 more Vice Presidents, who were then released at a public ceremony.

so...

monkeyrun @ 10/30/2003 12:00:20 PM #

does that mean Palm could finally make some smartphone with some decent smartphone operating system (aka Symbian) ?

they know how to speak when convenient

babsknupp @ 10/30/2003 1:04:33 PM #

Sure, Palm can publically announce something like this but total silence about the T3 issues...

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Lamers don't die

grg @ 10/30/2003 1:10:49 PM #

From Tom Jacobs at today's MotleyFool.com (http://www.fool.com/news/mft/2003/mft03103007.htm):

Palm suxx ... blah blah blah ... Palm looses marketshare ... FUD FUD FUD ... PocketPC rulez ... blah blah blah ... Dell roxx ... blah blah blah ....

Motley Fool Senior Analyst Tom Jacobs owns shares of Nokia and Microsoft.

RE: Lamers don't die

Foo Fighter @ 10/30/2003 2:04:01 PM #

I don't see where you getting this Pocket PC slant from. He's just pointing out the current and changing market conditions, and problems both companies will face. Hardly biased, it's called reporting the facts.

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