Bye bye Palm
"Shelley" <[email protected]>
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Read the entire story at:
http://news.com.com/PalmSource+sale+wont+kill+Palm+OS/2100-1041_3-5857082.html
Shelley Elmblad
financialsoft.about.com
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PalmSource sale won't kill Palm OS
Published: September 9, 2005, 12:38 PM PDT
By Michael Singer
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
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The sale of PalmSource may consummate the marriage of Linux and the
Palm OS, but it won't kill off the operating system that helped create
the PDA market.
Executives of Japan's Access said the company's $324.3 million
proposal, announced Friday, would not have an immediate impact on the
more than 39 million Palm-powered devices made by Palm and more than
40 other manufacturers, including Japan's Sony and Kyocera, and South
Korea's Samsung Electronics.
"The existing deployments of Palm OS, including Palm OS Garnet, will
continuously be supported," an Access representative said. "The
purpose of the agreement is to maximize the synergy between the two
companies. We really don't expect any changes in the relationships
that we have with licensees."
Access said it wants to finish creating the Linux-Palm operating
system hybrid that PalmSource started when it finalized its
acquisition of China MobileSoft this year. The company gave no time
frame for completing the work.
"They will preserve as much as they can, but it is a larger task than
most people realize," Gartner analyst Todd Kort said. "That is why
PalmSource said it would take 18 to 24 months to finish the project.
It was their main focus for 2005."
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