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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
...CBR has pulled the article with Access now saying much of the content was incorrectly reported. I, on the other hand, maintain PalmOS is dead. (yes, I know... shocking isn't it?) ;-)
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I would agree with you that the PalmOS is dead but I do think that they'll try and bring in Linux. They do have the user base as an incentive to give it a shot. But the OS port would only work if the Palm developers stay on board. MS is making a big push for them to jump ship. There is tons of help being cooked up in order to make that happen since the Palm community would make a nice meal and I'm sure they don't want to share it with anyone especially with Linux.
While I don't do too much PPC work aside from some small integration issues I do see quite a few of my clients that have Palm connectivity to their enterprise starting to even ask me earnestly about the PPC. Since most of them are already acquainted with Outlook it should not be too much of a hassle to bring them over to the PPC world. And I think that this is where the Palm developer will also go. Whether the developer community likes the current situation or not there does not seem to be much of a future in development for Palm OS.
I think at this point MS will slice and dice this meal any way it can in order to make it a very fast and filling meal with no leftovers.
Jeff-