Sunday, December 10, 2006
Palm OS Running On Top Of Windows Mobile?
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "THE COMPETITION" @ 04:00 PM
http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.com/2006/12/palm-gets-its-os-back.html
No, I am not talking about the StyleTap program that runs some PalmOS apps on your Windows Mobile, I am talking about Palm, Inc. actually taking Palm OS5, also known as Garnet, and putting it on top of Windows Mobile, or at least Windows CE. There are at least two reasons Palm might want to consider this. First of all, they have never written an operating system from the ground up. The original OS in the mid 1990's was sitting on top of a kernel written by a real time operating system company called Kadak. More recently, PalmSource has been working on a newer version called ALP that will be on top of Linux. Why should Palm, Inc. start over when they already have ties to Microsoft's embedded mobile operating system? Second, OS5 simply cannot handle 3G networks. You need true multitasking to do that and PalmOS just doesn't support it, so let Windows Mobile do all of the heavy lifting.
Anyway, head over to Michael Mace's blog to see his thoughts about it. He is the former Chief Competitive Officer of Palm before the platform and hardware companies were split up, so he may have some unique insights on Garnet's future now that Palm, Inc. has licensed it back.
No, I am not talking about the StyleTap program that runs some PalmOS apps on your Windows Mobile, I am talking about Palm, Inc. actually taking Palm OS5, also known as Garnet, and putting it on top of Windows Mobile, or at least Windows CE. There are at least two reasons Palm might want to consider this. First of all, they have never written an operating system from the ground up. The original OS in the mid 1990's was sitting on top of a kernel written by a real time operating system company called Kadak. More recently, PalmSource has been working on a newer version called ALP that will be on top of Linux. Why should Palm, Inc. start over when they already have ties to Microsoft's embedded mobile operating system? Second, OS5 simply cannot handle 3G networks. You need true multitasking to do that and PalmOS just doesn't support it, so let Windows Mobile do all of the heavy lifting.
Anyway, head over to Michael Mace's blog to see his thoughts about it. He is the former Chief Competitive Officer of Palm before the platform and hardware companies were split up, so he may have some unique insights on Garnet's future now that Palm, Inc. has licensed it back.
