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Palm To Purchase Be's IP

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the odd-combination dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Why? by thegrommit · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well, Palm are supposed to be moving from the Motorola DragonBall to the ARM architecture in the near future. Perhaps they felt it necessary to acquire some developers who had experience writing a real OS?

  2. Re:Awesome! by stew77 · · Score: 0, Troll

    What's wrong? I have written drivers for BeOS, I have read sources of Unix drivers. I know how BeOS drivers look like from the inside, do you?