Palm OS Emulator Ported to Sharp Zaurus

An Anonymous Coward writes: "Palm Info Center reports that POSE (the Palm Os Emulator) has been ported to the Sharp Zaurus using the QTopia palmtop environment. See the QPOSE homepage for more information." This could make a Zaurus a much more attractive device to those of us with lots of important info on Palm Os devices, but according to other readers' submissions it does require a Palm ROM image to function.

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Palm direction towards OS licensing

[WillSeattle]

and away from hardware with OS bundle (aka Palm 505, V, etc).

One of the reasons I bought 1/1000th of Palm after IPO lockup drop was that I predicted they would:
a. survive the dot com crash (didn't know when that would happen but did know valuations were nuts);
b. increase revenue sales of the OS to other devices to the point where it would become the major share of their revenues.

Hardware usually has bad ROI, but software has good ROI, provided you're one of the lead providers.

So from this we can gather that you'll be reading many many more articles on "Palm ports OS to [insert device h/w here]" over the next year - and if you read the annual report, you can read between the lines.

In some ways, open source (e.g. BSD, Linux) threatens their market space, as the cost factor is even lower, but the patent background should permit them to survive in the evolving non-PC era of the 2001-2020 era as devices and such fade into the background. But they have successfully defended against MSFT and other attempts.

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