| Linux named "platform for the future" by PalmSource keynote speaker |
May 28, 2005
The developer of PalmOS, PalmSource, Inc., has made a commitment to Linux with its recent acquisition of Linux smartphone software vendor China MobileSoft (CMS). This week at "Mobile Summit," PalmSource's annual developer event, keynote speaker Dr. Dave Nagel expanded on Linux's importance to PalmSource.
"Linux is our platform for the future," said Dr. Nagel, noting that CMS's (re-named PalmSource Asia) Linux-based products will make their way into PalmSource's offerings worldwide.
Promises of a new Linux-based Palm operating system means developers may finally break free of PalmOS's current single-threaded, real-time environment. "We're dying to do synchronization and replication in the background, without resorting to hacks that emulate multitasking," said IBM software engineer Thomas E. Link.
Though details on the new version of PalmOS seem scarce enough to warrant cries of "vaporware," the move to a Linux-based OS does seem to be in PalmSource's best interests. When speaking of PalmSource's future, Dr. Nagel pointed to smartphones and third generation mobile telephony technology (3G), which allows the simultaneous transfer of voice and non-voice data like IM and email. An OS that can't run tasks in the background obviously isn't going to cut it in a 3G market.
To read more of PalmSource's road map for the future, check out these two interesting and informative stories at DesktopLinux.com sister site, LinuxDevices.com:
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