PalmSource revenues remain strongly dependent on Palm

Alexander Turcic · 08-17-2005, 05:14 PM

PalmSource has filed a Form 10-K in which they discuss various forward-looking risks and uncertainties of the company. The main talk is about unexpected losses in royalities from Palm OS licensees, and about Palm company still accounting for a substantial portion of PalmSource's revenues for the foreseeable future (that is unless Palm withdraws from PalmOS, which they do could at any time).

"Outlook for fiscal year 2006: We anticipate revenue will be negatively impacted on a year-over-year basis by factors such as Sony’s exit from the PDA market, the pre-pay of one licensee’s royalty minimum, and the expiration of certain prepaid royalties that were being amortized on a quarterly basis."

dmitrygr · 08-17-2005, 07:00 PM

Quote:

PalmSource revenues remain strongly dependent on Palm

In other news: grass is green and sky is blue

gadgetguru · 08-18-2005, 10:38 AM

Seems our admin dissect Palmsource SEC filings more than most stock analyst do...

Traecer Prime · 08-18-2005, 03:10 PM

1) the pre-pay of one licensee’s royalty minimum == LG had to pay up front
2) Palm's license contract has a $40mil/yr minimum payment clause. Palm will be paying PalmSource at least that much per year, and more if they sell enough Palm OS devices.

08-17-2005, 05:14 PM	#1
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,175 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	PalmSource revenues remain strongly dependent on Palm PalmSource has filed a Form 10-K in which they discuss various forward-looking risks and uncertainties of the company. The main talk is about unexpected losses in royalities from Palm OS licensees, and about Palm company still accounting for a substantial portion of PalmSource's revenues for the foreseeable future (that is unless Palm withdraws from PalmOS, which they do could at any time). "Outlook for fiscal year 2006: We anticipate revenue will be negatively impacted on a year-over-year basis by factors such as Sony’s exit from the PDA market, the pre-pay of one licensee’s royalty minimum, and the expiration of certain prepaid royalties that were being amortized on a quarterly basis."

08-18-2005, 10:38 AM	#3
gadgetguru Addict Posts: 214 Karma: 6370 Join Date: May 2003 Location: Asia Device: Tungsten T5	Seems our admin dissect Palmsource SEC filings more than most stock analyst do... Last edited by gadgetguru; 08-18-2005 at 10:41 AM.

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08-18-2005, 03:10 PM	#4
Traecer Prime Connoisseur Posts: 54 Karma: 27 Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Time and Space, the perfect escape Device: Sony PRS-T2	1) the pre-pay of one licensee’s royalty minimum == LG had to pay up front 2) Palm's license contract has a $40mil/yr minimum payment clause. Palm will be paying PalmSource at least that much per year, and more if they sell enough Palm OS devices.

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