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cervezas · 03-27-2006, 10:55 PM

The only thing about those two postings, Surer, is that embedded Linux skills would be good experience to have for those jobs even if they were for 68k Palm OS application development. In this day of object-oriented programming, Java, and .NET, I expect it's harder to find talented C language developers than it used to be, especially ones with specific Palm OS experience. But any good Linux C developer can learn Palm OS pretty easily. They also might be a little more likely to have experience working on teams in a corporate setting than, say, you're average Palm OS shareware developer.

I still think Palm is doing some kind of platform development using Linux because of that one very specific job posting and the fact that they were hiring lots of Linux engineers in the Fall, but these two positions just sound like Palm OS engineering jobs to me.

03-27-2006, 10:55 PM	#9
cervezas palm & java hacker Posts: 52 Karma: 251 Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Manitou Springs, CO Device: Visor, T3, i500, iQue ...	The only thing about those two postings, Surer, is that embedded Linux skills would be good experience to have for those jobs even if they were for 68k Palm OS application development. In this day of object-oriented programming, Java, and .NET, I expect it's harder to find talented C language developers than it used to be, especially ones with specific Palm OS experience. But any good Linux C developer can learn Palm OS pretty easily. They also might be a little more likely to have experience working on teams in a corporate setting than, say, you're average Palm OS shareware developer. I still think Palm is doing some kind of platform development using Linux because of that one very specific job posting and the fact that they were hiring lots of Linux engineers in the Fall, but these two positions just sound like Palm OS engineering jobs to me.