"Ben Combee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Btw, the way Palmsource clings onto their old philosophies may well > >prove to be fatal to them. > > > I'd say PalmSource isn't clinging to the past -- they are pushing Palm OS > Cobalt very hard to their licenses (it has multiple threads, a standard C > library, and BSD sockets) and they're moving their API to run on top of > embedded Linux. > > -- Ben Combee, Senior Software Engineer, palmOne, Inc. > "Combee on Palm OS" weblog: http://palmos.combee.net/ > Developer Forum Archives: http://news.palmos.com/read/all_forums/ > >
Ben, Thanks for your mention of Linux. I hadn't been following this development. If anyone else is in the same boat, here is a link that sheds some more light on this: http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/02/14/HNpalmsourceceo_1.html As a former Zaurus developer, I find this quite exciting. Ralph -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
