Palm To Purchase Be's IP

There's been a lot of rumours swirling around an imminent buyout of Be's IP given their current cash situation. But I wouldn't have thought of Palm as a potential suitor - but a story in the subscription only area of today's WSJ indicates it to be true. Hopefully a non-pay service will get the story soon - but looks like Palm is trying to beef up its software side, and wants to get some Be's engineers.Update: 08/16 02:16 PM by H :Looks like C|Net has the details - 11 million USD in Palm stock for the purchase of Be.

Comments

Apple

[well_jung]

So what will Apple do with Be when they buy Palm?

Re:Apple

[Have Blue]

And what will Disney do with all three of them?

Wahoo!

[Lally Singh]

So does this mean that we get SMP palms with little LED bargraphs on each side of the display for each CPU?

how many shares?

[UM_Maverick]

11 million in Palm stock, huh? What's that, like 5.8E21 shares at this point?

If a tree falls in the forest

[SilentChris]

If one failing company buys out another failing company, does it make a sound? :)

Re:BeIA was the likely target

[clontzman]

But if Palm can combine BeIA with their own PalmOS, they could really give PocketPC a run for the market.

Yeah, and if I can combine a bologna sandwich with a rocket ship, I won't fly to the moon hungry.

Re:Maybe Palm will license BeOS for web pads?

[guinsu]

Maybe some of the UI design could migrate over to Linux too. :)

Re:Gotta be for Palm OS 5.0...

[Lars T.]

Heh, I bet Palm bought Be so Palm won't be bought by Apple, beacause Jobs wouldn't be seen dead with Be.

Re:soooo

[tswinzig]

In other words, Be as a desktop OS is DEAD

Holy shit! Hide the women, children, and copies of BeOS 5 on your hard drive, because apparantly JLG will be comin' round to delete them!

(The copies of BeOS, not your women and children.)

(He might rape your women, though. He's French, you know.)