Saturday, April 21, 2007
Palm, Inc. Redies Its Own Operating System Based On Linux
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "THE COMPETITION" @ 04:00 PM
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/10/palm-prepping-its-own-linux-based-os/
"Just a few years late, Palm is finally getting ready to land its users onto a modern Palm-built OS. Ed Colligan, in his Investor Day keynote today, announced that Palm will be launching a homegrown Linux-based OS by the end of the year, with Opera for a browser and the recently acquired Chattermail for messaging. Palm has been secretly at work on this OS for a number of years, and does not plan to license it to other manufacturers. Colligan also says that Palm is going to continue Windows Mobile product releases, and thanks to that handy Garnet license, Palm will be able to show its "commitment to the Palm OS community" by merging Palm OS 5.4 support into its Linux kernel."
Palm OS 5 is over 5 years old now, ancient in the world of mobile devices. PalmSource, the owner of OS 5, was purchased by Access last year and Access announced ALP, a Linux based successor to PalmOS, but now Palm, Inc., the hardware manufacturer, no longer content to license PalmOS 5 and Windows Mobile is going to be developing their own platform again. Do you think there is room for another mobile operating system?
"Just a few years late, Palm is finally getting ready to land its users onto a modern Palm-built OS. Ed Colligan, in his Investor Day keynote today, announced that Palm will be launching a homegrown Linux-based OS by the end of the year, with Opera for a browser and the recently acquired Chattermail for messaging. Palm has been secretly at work on this OS for a number of years, and does not plan to license it to other manufacturers. Colligan also says that Palm is going to continue Windows Mobile product releases, and thanks to that handy Garnet license, Palm will be able to show its "commitment to the Palm OS community" by merging Palm OS 5.4 support into its Linux kernel."
Palm OS 5 is over 5 years old now, ancient in the world of mobile devices. PalmSource, the owner of OS 5, was purchased by Access last year and Access announced ALP, a Linux based successor to PalmOS, but now Palm, Inc., the hardware manufacturer, no longer content to license PalmOS 5 and Windows Mobile is going to be developing their own platform again. Do you think there is room for another mobile operating system?
