Is Access, the Japanese company that now owns PalmSource, getting ready
to kill off the PalmOS?
Reports earlier today seemed to indicate that,
as Computer Business Review stated that Access was planning an
“end-of-life” for the OS. However,
Brighthand spoke with PalmSource execs,
who insisted that the OS wasn't dead, and that a new, Linux-based
version would be forthcoming, which would sport the familiar Palm UI,
as well as support for legacy Palm apps. And, as of this evening, the
article on CBR's web site that started the whole mystery had itself
mysteriously vanished. One possible source for the confusion, according
to Brighthand: the next version of the OS may not be called PalmOS, as
Palm now has the sole rights to the Palm name. So, the
PalmOS brand may be killed off, but not the software itself.
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