PalmGear to Host Palm's Software Connection
On March 14, PalmGear will become the exclusive host of the Software Connection on the Palm website. This means anyone on the the Palm site who clicks on the Software Connection link will be taken to a site hosted by PalmGear. The site will be served by a high-capacity Tier 1 provider to ensure that it is capable to handling the demand put on it.
Unless requested not to, all software on PalmGear will be available on the new site. However, Palm is cracking down on companies and individuals that it believes are violating their trademark. Therefore, all software and companies that use the word "Palm" in their names will not be displayed on the new Software Connection site.
The exception to this is Palm will allow software to have "for Palm OS" in its title. The example they use is an application called "PalmCheckers" and any application from a company called "Palm Software" will not be displayed on Palm.com, while an application called "Checkers for Palm OS" will be displayed.
All of this comes from an e-mail sent today to all developers registered with Palmgear. The e-mail goes on to say that Palm is planning a marketing drive to raise awareness of the third party software that is available. They are also going to add a shopping cart to the site and introduce a wireless interface in a few weeks.
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Copywrite?
Peace Out
Alan
RE: Copyright?
RE: Copywrite?
Peace Out
Alan
RE: Copywrite?
Interesting how the a company called "Palmgear" will not be alowed to post apps who use the word "palm" in their name.....
Seems that they too would also be in violation of the alleged copyright that Palm now wants to enforce.
Maybe they'll be required to change their name to "Gear for Palm OS" :^)
Regards
RE: Trademark
http://www.uspto.gov/web/menu/tm.html
BTW, I found where they had "Palm IX" and "Palm XI" trademarked. I guess these were going to be the future models before they changed the naming scheme.
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PalmGear is slow...
RE: PalmGear is slow...
I think it will remain slow as long as they are using WinNT/2000 - you can't host enterprise-level stuff on a poxy 4-6 processor box, even if it's being load-balanced at the front. And WinNT/2000 has doesn't scale particularly well beyond that either, notwithstanding the fact that any else higher than that is too exotic for proper maintenance anyway.
Look forward to more IIS errors from dodgy ASP scripts that don't handle errors well.
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Like Tier 1 is going to help
The only Palm site slower site than PalmGear, I know is PalmLounge (which also uses ColdFusion).