The Register -
What sealed Palm's software fate?:
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So, PalmOS ends up in the hands of an Japanese mobile browser company that almost no one has ever heard of. It's a sad sign that expectations for PalmOS software have been so low, for so long, that PalmSource stock leapt 70 per cent on the news.
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This editiorial may be too negative and sometimes downright cynical, but the author does point out one possibility that most of us haven't thought about yet:
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as critics have pointed out, it really bought PalmSource for its Chinese Linux presence - in which case $324 million looks like a bargain.
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