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RE: The end of PalmOS - Amen!
Now, compatibility with the core OS...that's important. But I guess we won't have that anymore since this won't be based on the same core OS. So why should developer X waste their time on this instead of some other company's Linux-based PDA/smartphone?
And another reason they're doing this is because it enables them to get the prices down? They can't do that with the OS they already own? Oh, I get it. It's because they've bought a company which employs workers in a communist country. That must be it. Interesting that this company is based out of Bermuda, though.
PalmSource: I just lost a lot of respect for you today. Congrats!
Scott
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Break one weak company into two FEEBLE ones. Real smart!
I fail to see why the he11 Palm didn't see a Linux kernel as a better solution than a custom Be-created kernel two years ago. We've now gone from a weak single company (Palm) to two feeble, schizophrenic, confused companies (pa1mOne + PalmSource). How is this an improvement?
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RE: The end of PalmOS - Amen!
Everytime I talk to someone about buying a PDA, encouraging them about the benefits of PalmOS, they eventually decide to go with PocketPC. Why? Maybe cause they think that since they're using MS programs on there, it'll work better with a MS handheld, despite anything I say about PalmOS working just as well or better with more efficient resources. Palm is simply doing the same thing, working with what's already established.
And if this move truly makes PalmSource more innovative, I'm all for it. I want to see PalmOS run circles around everyone else. But they need resources to do it. This move doesn't sound like fear, but strategy, to build up their resources. What's all the negative reaction for?
Powered by Linux is scary to normal people
Did it occur to you that a logo saying "Powered by Linux" would scare even more business people over to pocketpc's?
Surur
Does this mean layered operating systems?
Since Palm OS and Linux are both operating systems how will this work? Will they run Palm OS on top of Linux kind of like a front end?
SJ30 > T|T3
RE: Does this mean layered operating systems?
JLM.
RE: Does this mean layered operating systems?
RE: Does this mean layered operating systems?
"We intend to offer future versions of Palm OS Cobalt as a software layer on top of Linux (specifically, on the Linux kernel plus selected Linux services appropriate to mobile devices). The Palm OS software layer will include our well-known UI as well as a set of middleware and applications that encompass the best of Palm OS."
Naively, I take this to mean that they intend to reimplement the PalmOS API using Linux system calls plus some userland services (e.g. Sendmail?). Alternatively, they might be able to put some of the PalmOS API in the Linux kernel, but that code would then have to be GPLed, so I doubt PalmSource will do that.
RE: Does this mean layered operating systems?
>>what exactly are they saying? Since Palm OS and Linux are both operating systems how will this work?
Sorry for the confusion.
It's a little bit of an oversimplification, but an easy way to think of this is the Palm OS interface, PIM apps, applications compatibility, and software frameworks (multimedia, wireless, graphics, etc) implemented as a software layer that runs on top of the Linux kernel. To a user, we expect that it'll look and work like any other Palm OS device, except that you'll also be able to run "native" Linux apps if you want to.
Mike
CCO, PalmSource
RE: Does this mean layered operating systems?
Win 9x aside, piggyback OS's have never fared too well, at least in the consumer sector. This reminds me of when JTS, an ailing harddrive manufacturer, gobbled up the remnants of Atari, sold off most of the IP, burned through the remaining warchest of cash and then fizzled out themselves.
The only remaining hope is for IBM to buy the whole bundle (PS & P1) and try to leverage it into their new-found Chinese alliance(s) to compete against MSFT in "emerging" markets and smartphones.
RE: Does this mean layered operating systems?
Not a bad idea, really. It lets them move to a more stable, supported 'foundation' for future apps, while keeping a known GUI and backwards-compatability with older apps.
RE: Does this mean layered operating systems?
It's a little late in the game to invent a new wheel, imho. Palmsource should be bankrupt by the end of 2005. Better snatch up the urls ppcinfocenter.com and pocketpcinfocenter.com before it's too late. :-)
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David
RE: Does this mean layered operating systems?
>>>Not a bad idea, really.
If they go the Apple route, it's a horrible idea. The Zen of Mac was killed by it. Spare me those idiotic traffic light icons! The new MacOS looks like it came from MS!
RE: Does this mean layered operating systems?
Peace Out
Alan
RE: Does this mean layered operating systems?
Seriously, though, I wasn't talking about how the new PalmOS would look. Rather, how it now sounds like they're building it: a gui on top of a known-stable OS core.
And you do know you can turn off the stop-lights, and make them all grey, right? Just go into System Prefs->Appearance and set it to Graphite. :)
RE: Does this mean layered operating systems?
Atari was doomed long before JTS bought them. Juggi Tandon (the JT in JTS) and his COO, Tom Mitchel had long had their fingers in both Atari and Comadore. I assume that they knew what meat was left on the bones and decided to pick the remains before the bones were tossed out.
Awesome!
Hey, and they even threw us a bone by saying that OS6 devices would be out in early 2005.
Pat Horne; www.churchoflivingfaith.com
Next, Unix and Mac!!!
My ideal Palm OS infrastructure would be Unix-based, just like Mac OS X.
Powered by Palm OS since March 2002
RE: Next, Unix and Mac!!!
What does this mean? If they are running on Linux, they're entirely and completely compatible with any other UNIX-compatible operating systems out there. And while BSD is certainly strongest in many areas, it's Linux that is on one hand well-known to the public, and on the other hand pretty well supported by hardware vendors, and thus has a pretty broad range of drivers. So I think it's really the smartest way to go Linux...
Just my two cents
RE: Next, Unix and Mac!!!
Let me put this in marketoid speak. It is clear that Palm management sees its primary value proposition to the end-customer base as its PIM applications (Addresss book, Todo, etc). This anouncement really speaks nothing about the wonders of the (internal) Palm OS. Even the low-end phone anoucement speaks to the PIM apps and UI.
How does this change the basic user's view of the Palm world. If you are like me, you are always pecking at your Palm while sitting in front of your PC. This proposal will have us using our PC to do our Palm stuff while at our desk and then grabbing a subset of our PC and sticking it in our pocket when we leave.
As noted above the current MAC OS X is a Unix spin-off (BSD), but I expect that it would require at least a modest porting effort to move to the Mac from Linux due to different libraries and low-level APIs. Given the much greater horse-power of desktops mapping Palm APIs onto the desktop should prove very do-able.
What is most interesting is the lack of a win port. The way I've usually seen these things happen at tech companies is that Palm has a customer paying for the Linux port so keep an eye out for the first.
This is a major re-positioning of the company more in line with the M$ "windoze everywhere" plan. M$ has done a really poor job of providing PIM application coverage. Outlook, if tha tcan be called a PIM, is used by so many folks only because it is free and M$'s back-office support for it. It will be interesting to see if Palm can get IT department to switch over. Wow, really interesting stuff.
RE: Next, Unix and Mac!!!
The cobalt apps are better, but the data format is not compatible, and no-one currently uses them.
I don't believe Palm have a strong enough hand in PIMs to be basing their strategy on it. ?
A linux base does make sense in many ways, but the marketing here seems to be completely off, and will have a very serious impact on developer perspective re: Cobalt. Apple doesn't advertise the OS as MacOS for Unix - it just happens to use a unix kernel.
A Linux base will attract a new bunch of developers, but at the expense of some of the existing ones - how many truely commercial Linux apps are there, compared with even PalmOS ones ? As someone else has said - PalmSource don't really care either way about developers, as they make no money from them.
RE: Next, Unix and Mac!!!
Peace Out
Alan
mixed feelings
In the end, this won't be much different than the previous Palm OS versions that ran on the Kadak kernel or even the current emulation layer.
The obvious questions would quickly become why should someone use this Palm OS over existing front-ends like Qtopia, which was used on the Zaurus (maybe you could even build this Palm OS on top of that). PalmSource providing quality PIM apps is a great start though.
Anyhow, mixed feelings. I think this has the potential to be really great, but it leaves a lot of things to think about.
RE: mixed feelings
> use this Palm OS over existing front-ends like Qtopia . . . .
One good reason is that it would be able to run all (or almost all) of the software that runs on the current Palm OS. We can't run Pocket Quicken on a Zaurus.
RE: mixed feelings
What's not good about it? Linux runs on millions of embedded devices, probably far more copies than Palm every produced handhelds. Linux supports a full GUI and desktop on a machine with 1/10 the power of a modern Palm handheld. It runs on $50 access points. What more do you want from an OS for mobile/embedded devices?
"Things like BeOS and QNX have much better approaches for these devices."
That's what Palm thought, too, and it's why they bought Be; you are seeing the results of that decision now. BeOS, in any case, was a desktop system through and through. QNX costs money, and it's unclear that it would have any tangible advantages for Palm.
RE: mixed feelings
Monolithic, not designed for devices with varying power requirements.
> Linux runs on millions of embedded devices
Which does not make it better (see Windows for an example of this).
> Linux upports a full GUI and desktop on a machine with
> 1/10 the power of a modern Palm handheld.
With a "full GUI"??? Just barely maybe, and so what? Other options out there offer more with even less.
> It runs on $50 access points.
Sure, that's where being free, supporting many chipsets, and having a steady power supply make it a somewhat easier choice.
> they bought Be; you are seeing the results of that decision now.
> BeOS, in any case, was a desktop system through and through.
Not really. Sure it was originally designed for that as a primary use, but the design was flexible enough to support other types of devices. The problem with using BeOS at the core (along with these other more obscure, but more appropriate OS's) is that developers are few and far between. If the difference is between asking PalmOne, Sony, etc. to write device drivers for BeOS or Linux, I can probably guess which can be more easily done (because more people with the experience is there for Linux) and more cheaply done (because more likely than not someone has already written the Linux driver).
> QNX costs money, and it's unclear that it would have
> any tangible advantages for Palm.
Well, money was clearly a factor (if not the factor, along with the "Linux" name) in PalmSource's decision. Licensing and supporting a wider variety of chipsets at a much lower cost are the clear factors here. Read any independent review of operating systems for these types of devices and the "tangible advantages" are very clear.
The simple fact of the matter is that when any new chipset comes out, it usually gets at least a Windows and/or Linux driver done for free by the vendor. Even if the Linux one doesn't get done by the vendor, there are usually enough people out there that it'll usually happen for free or greatly reduced cost. Anybody else (other operating systems) usually has to pay one way or another for the drivers.
RE: mixed feelings
No, Linux is highly modular, both in user space and in kernel space. The one thing it is not is a microkernel, but microkernels have almost universally failed.
not designed for devices with varying power requirements.
Linux has full support for power management, CPU throttling, and other power-related features, and it is widely used on battery powered devices.
[Linux upports a full GUI and desktop on a machine with
1/10 the power of a modern Palm handheld.] With a "full GUI"???
Yes, with a full GUI. The real question is why PalmOS, as it is, has always performed so poorly compared to UNIX and Linux.
The problem with using BeOS at the core (along with these other more obscure, but more appropriate OS's) is that developers are few and far between
The problem with BeOS was that its design was driven by a bunch of gearheads who thought that the measure of a good OS was how many heads they could bounce in parallel and how many irrelevant features they could add to the file system, and for that, they gratuitiously broke compatibility with industry standards.
If you are going to break compatibility with industry standards, you better have a really good reason and long-term vision. Newton was the only system in recent memory that even came close to meeting that standard. Otherwise, conservative and traditional systems like Linux are the better engineering choice (and these days, your best engineering tradeoff for something like Newton would be to run it on top of a Linux kernel as well).
Kicking Be when they're down (for the count?)
At lest Pépé Gassee got a few million $$$ (to restock the blow jar) out of the Be "deal".
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What a crock
We effed up. Boy, we REALLY effed up. WOW, did we ever EFF UP!!
But you can't blame us. We were spun off too late. We had a legacy of foot-dragging that we couldn't overcome. We tried to get Cobalt in usable form, but when licensees saw it, they bailed on us.
Really, not our fault. But we DID EFF UP. (PINlets, anyone? No / icon in the Command Bar?)
So now we are all looking to save our lazy, unimaginative a$$es and stock-sucking entrenched positions and overpriced executive-like jobs by gobbling up an obscure company that has "applications" (notice we didn't give any **names** or use examples?) for CHINESE (stop laughing!) cellphones.
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My own comments:
Hey, you can't make up this kind of blatant stupidity, can you?
If I'd predicted this last year, I would have gotten flattened!
But Linux WAS in the cards AS FAR BACK as the DEBUT OF THE VISOR! Go see my report (I'll try to dig up the URL, or Ryan will have to) from PC Expo where The Great Bird of the Galaxy (oops, that's Gene Roddenberry) -- The Great PDA God of the Sky (well, what DO we call Jeff Hawkins?) mentioned looking at others OSes and a guy next to me piped up with "LINUX!!!!"
I don't care how they color or spin this. It's a last-ditch effort to save themselves.
PalmOS = D.e.a.d.
RE: What a crock
RE: What a crock
Eff updating the TE. If that's as far as you can see, you need more than glasses.
RE: What a crock
Hmm..., let's see, China has how many people, and how many of those people are buying cellphones, and what is the overall potential for the Chinese cell phone market? I'm struggling to see the humor in this one, but maybe you can explain the joke to me.
Since I live in a country with over 100% cell phone saturation and those people all speak Chinese, maybe I just have a different perspective than the average American, but I do suggest you expand your thinking just a little to include the idea that English is not the "end all" of languages (and that the US is not the "end all" of markets).
Incidentally, what is the current number one selling piece of third-party software for the PalmOS? How long has it topped the list? Who makes it? (Just have a look at that #1 spot in PalmGear "best selling" list if you haven't yet figured it out.)
RE: What a crock
RE: What a crock
I went to Palmgear to check it out.
Selected Best selling and the one that showed being most downloaded was Documents To Go 7, with some 290,000 downloads.
What was your point?
RE: What a crock
And speaking of Sharp, is everyone here aware that their latest clamshell Zaurus uses an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT LINUX KERNAL than past Zaurii? And that many drivers are currently NOT available for it?
Let's see how long before PS gives us *another* kernal bait-and-switch...
RE: What a crock
RE: What a crock
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3. PAC-MAN(R)
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RE: What a crock
Mike, when was the last time something other than ZLauncher was at the top of the PalmGear list as displayed on their front page? I was simply questioning your ethnocentrism and giving you one example to ponder. But of course you can poke at it all you want.
RE: BeOS?
JLM.
RE: BeOS?
Bermuda Triangle !!!!!
Interesting that CMS are in Bermuda.
WATCH OUT FOR THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE !!!!
The PalmSource Black Hole that seems to swallow good companies, creativity and shareholder value, without a trace, has started devouring *itself* now !!!!
So PalmSource couldn't produce their own kernel ?
So what do they actually do ? A bunch of legacy apps designed for nearly decade-old hardware, whose UI, whilst zen-simple, is not a great match for mobile phones (or always-on anything, really), and whose functionality and interconnectedness really aren't up to todays needs.
And what about the licensees who've spent the last year(s) getting up to speed with palmOS 6. They're not a little pissed ?
As a developer, why the heck would I want to develop for PalmOS 6, when this will likely only be implemented as a layer atop Linux. I may as well develop for Linux.
And a whole load of developers 'out there on the net' are just going to develop low-level very hardware specific, and mobile-operator-compliant drivers for PalmSource for free ?? The Asian market likes Linux because they instantly get a lot of functionality that they can tailor completely, FOR FREE. And they get a whole load of other apps off the internet FOR FREE.
All that will be left of PalmOS, will be the legacy compatibilty app, PACE. The equivalent of the current gameboy emulators, etc.
Oh, and a pool of cheap labour.
So this time, not only has the BlackHole swallowed either itself, or CMS, or both - its indermining, and will swallow the currect crop of developers, and licensees too. I think I'll move all my resources over to MIDP2.0 development for future products.....
RE: Bermuda Triangle !!!!!
Well hell, the Zaurus sure needed plenty of good apps.
Too late now. No longer being sold in the US.
And let's remember that Sharp had **IBM** shilling that baby to corporations here! And it *still* sunk!
RE: Bermuda Triangle !!!!!
No - if you actually want to utilize the GUI or other API stuff that allows you to do palm specific stuff - you write yr code using the Protein APIs. Its the exact same as with current Cobolt.
RE: Bermuda Triangle !!!!!
Up to 1999: PalmOS 2,3 on 68k
In 1999: Announces porting PalmOS to the Symbian Kernel, never happened
In 2001: Releases PalmOS 5 on ARM platform
In 2001: Purchases Be and Some BeOS stuff
In 2003: Releases PalmOS 6 Cobalt, no devices yet
In 2003: Announces a Wireles version of PalmOS 5 for cheap devices would be released in 2004: Not Released.
In 2004: Releases PalmOS 6.1 Cobalt, no devices yet
In 2004: Announces Porting PalmOS 6 to Linux
From an outside, This is like an OS bazaar ! How can anyone believes what any of these bozos say ?
RE: Bermuda Triangle !!!!!
This is incorrect. Nokia licensed elements of the PalmOS GUI that they were going to graft over either their OS or the Symbian variant they were using. (Hey, Ryan, is the link to THAT article broken too? Searching for stuff on PIC is just hell...)
Here's something I dredged up via the web and Google:
NOKIA LICENSES PALM OS FOR SMARTPHONES
Nokia will license the Palm Computing Operating System (Palm OS) for its next generation of smart phones. Nokia plans to implement the Palm user interface and Palm applications running on the Symbian platform. Resulting devices will run both Palm and Symbian applications. http://www.nokia.com/main.html
Nokia, October 13, 1999
-- wow, SIX YEARS LATER and we're back to the future!
RE: Good bye, PalmOS
Now Palm will be created for Linux, will we also use the DOS-like screen and typing commands into the command line? I tried out Linux on my Desktop PC some years ago, but it took me very much time to understand it and it didn't run more stable than Windows XP does now! Linux wasn't created by Linus Torvalds to work as a Desktop Alternative, the GUIs crated for Linux were all put over the command line.
Palm wants to sell more smartphones or cell phones but I think they are a bit too late! Symbian runs very well on smartphones, I don't know a device with Linux on it and the Palm devices (Treo) are not really "smart" - they are too big to replace a mobile phone. Could anybody tell me a reason why I should go back to PalmOS and buy a Palm device and carry it always also with me, in addition to my mobile phone?
In my view, PalmOS is sleeping and they haven't been wake up yet. Well let's see in one year how PalmOS works with Linux but Microsoft also won't stop their development until then. Perhaps it will also get as stable as with XP on the Desktop, why should anybody than use PalmOS? I miss the killing feature on PalmOS more and more, so PalmOS isn't ready for the future.
Someone mentioned the Zaurus devices of Sharp, they worked so great with Linux that they aren't available any more. Why?
As I mentioned I tried Linux and BeOS as it was available and think it was a great OS, but my devices (Lexmark printer) doesn't work with it. BeOS is/was easy to use and configure, Linux wasn't. I'm not really a friend of M$, but now with XP it seems to work without "bluescreens". Perhaps in one year with PalmOS on Linux we always have to login as administrators to install new apps? What a great progress!
RE: Is PalmOS disappearing into the Bermuda Triangle???
I just changed to Symbian OS because I no longer want to go out with my Palm and my mobile phone. Palm seems not to be able to sell a smartphone for less than 300 $ or €, Siemens and Nokia are! Some applications also run on this platform, I didn't expected that.
Yes, Palm's biggest (of many) mistakes has been its failure to produce an inexpensive phone running PalmOS. People would be VERY happy with something as small as the Sony Ericsson T630 (or even T610) that could also run some basic PalmOS apps as well. Creating such a phone isn't rocket science - the parts are already out there and the OS is already capable - but it appears to be beyond Palm's ability to get someone to build them a cheap PalmOS phone.
Now Palm will be created for Linux, will we also use the DOS-like screen and typing commands into the command line? I tried out Linux on my Desktop PC some years ago, but it took me very much time to understand it and it didn't run more stable than Windows XP does now! Linux wasn't created by Linus Torvalds to work as a Desktop Alternative, the GUIs crated for Linux were all put over the command line.
First of all, no one is saying Palm is being created for Linux. Palm is just planning to use the Linux kernel (the core of an OS) instead of the one Palm currently uses. The kernel is invisible to users and would make no difference to how you use your Palm. The Palm GUI and applications would remain exactly the same as they are now. Of course, this is making the very large assumption that Palm can actually pull this off in the next year. I doubt they can, but that's another story.
Palm wants to sell more smartphones or cell phones but I think they are a bit too late! Symbian runs very well on smartphones, I don't know a device with Linux on it
Yes, they are getting late. If Palm can't put out a cheap PalmOS phone in 2005, it will probably be game over for them as an independent company. Symbian has a lot of "issues" if you're trying to use it to do anything but the very basics, has a number of problems with its syncing and lacks the apps + potential that PalmOS has. Motorola already has a Linux-based phone and others are coming.
Palm could have trumped them all had they just chosen to develop PalmLinux 3 years ago. In 2005 they could have had an OS capable of running on everything from the most powerful PDA-replacement Treo to the most basic "free" phone and become a major player in the phone business. Samsung, Sony Ericsson and even Motorola could potentially have chosen PalmOS for their phones. Instead, we now have the Cobalt Nightmare that just won't end.
...and the Palm devices (Treo) are not really "smart" - they are too big to replace a mobile phone.
Nonsense. The Treos are as "smart" as smartphones get. Yes, Palm does need to put out a SMALL, basic Treo, since for most people small size and style are a major part of why they choose their phones.
Could anybody tell me a reason why I should go back to PalmOS and buy a Palm device and carry it always also with me, in addition to my mobile phone?
Only YOU know if this is a good idea. It all depends on what you did with your Palm before and whether or not a Symbian phone can do those things to your satisfaction. Carrying 2 devices is a pain in the a$$, but for me the benefits outweigh the downside. But if Palm (or the king of Vaporware, Samsung) made a high quality, small smartphone, I would gladly give up my current combo, even though this would mean compromising on a lot of things, especially screen size.
In my view, PalmOS is sleeping and they haven't been wake up yet. Well let's see in one year how PalmOS works with Linux but Microsoft also won't stop their development until then. Perhaps it will also get as stable as with XP on the Desktop, why should anybody than use PalmOS?
Yes, Palm is destroying any lead time advantages they used to have by sitting still. Eventually, Microsoft may get things right. And even if Microsoft doesn't make a better smartphone OS, eventually the Microsoft name, marketing muscle and better hardware may win them the smarphone war.
I miss the killing feature on PalmOS more and more, so PalmOS isn't ready for the future.
What is this strange language you speak?
Someone mentioned the Zaurus devices of Sharp, they worked so great with Linux that they aren't available any more. Why?
Zaurus had no apps and sync issues (though probably not as bad as Symbian's sync problems). Nice hardware from Sharp, though.
As I mentioned I tried Linux and BeOS as it was available and think it was a great OS, but my devices (Lexmark printer) doesn't work with it. BeOS is/was easy to use and configure, Linux wasn't. I'm not really a friend of M$, but now with XP it seems to work without "bluescreens". Perhaps in one year with PalmOS on Linux we always have to login as administrators to install new apps? What a great progress!
Again, you are confused about what PalmLinux is expected to be. It is about using a Linux "core" surrounded by all of the other familiar parts of the Palm OS. You would not notice the difference between PalmOS running on a Linux kernel and PalmOS running on its current kernel. Assuming PalmSource and its Chinese saviours can actually pull this off. Before everyone has abandoned the platform.
Bottom line is Palm should have chosen a Linux kernel three years ago and now that they've seen the light, it's too late to recover. Even PalmSource's Dianne Hackborn has alluded to the fact that Palm made a tragic mistake by not chosing a Unix-style kernel. But now the dye is cast.
Palm's failure to produce a cheap (below $200) PalmOS smartphone will be remembered as what finally killed a great platform. Oh well...
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Did anyone go look?
http://www.chinamobilesoft.com/product/mbrowser.asp
http://www.chinamobilesoft.com/product/applications.asp
http://www.chinamobilesoft.com/aboutus/aboutus_03culture_en.asp
And here's an article by the CMS gang itself:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8031190326.html
Moolah raised:
http://www.arcassociates.com/news/mn_china_mobilesoft.html
TI & CMS:
http://www.kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=2576333
Smartcards:
http://lists.drizzle.com/pipermail/muscle/2002-November/000360.html
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The end of PalmOS - Amen!
This will be the last trial for the Palmsource management to save their a.... for some time!!! PalmOne left already for Microsoft mobile the sinking boat (the rats jump as first!) and now Palm source try to save whats not anymore to save. Its time now to sell the Palm Source stocks, because they will be in short on the market just for pennys!
It´s a real shame, and as first, if there have just one pund caracter, the hold managment should resign! If Linux would be a handheld solution, Sharp would controll already the Handweld market! But waht did Sharp do for mobile phone application? Yes they switched to Symbian!!!
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