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Colin Dunstan · 11-17-2004, 05:57 PM

A follow-up to our recent PalmOne discussions (here and here): David Berlind from ZDNet explains why PalmOne may already have caused a devastating blow to PalmSource:

Since the beginning of this month, when Needham & Co. issued a research report that said PalmOne had "tacitly admitted" it was going to use PocketPC in its Treos, PalmSource's stock has dropped by over 30 percent. I've been hypercritical of PalmSource's failure to fully embrace Java as its primary development platform, thereby giving the more than three million developers that work in Java guaranteed access to the PalmOS market. My commmentary drew a response from PalmSource product marketing vice president Charlie Tritschler who tried to convince me otherwise. I'm still not convinced. Now, with PalmOne on the verge of making its decision, it may be too late.

11-17-2004, 05:57 PM	#1
Colin Dunstan Is papyrophobic! Posts: 1,926 Karma: 1009999 Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: USA Device: Dell Axim	PalmOne, a devastating blow to palmSource A follow-up to our recent PalmOne discussions (here and here): David Berlind from ZDNet explains why PalmOne may already have caused a devastating blow to PalmSource: Since the beginning of this month, when Needham & Co. issued a research report that said PalmOne had "tacitly admitted" it was going to use PocketPC in its Treos, PalmSource's stock has dropped by over 30 percent. I've been hypercritical of PalmSource's failure to fully embrace Java as its primary development platform, thereby giving the more than three million developers that work in Java guaranteed access to the PalmOS market. My commmentary drew a response from PalmSource product marketing vice president Charlie Tritschler who tried to convince me otherwise. I'm still not convinced. Now, with PalmOne on the verge of making its decision, it may be too late.