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PalmOS 5 Turns Gold

Posted by timothy on from the rumplepalmskin dept.

Stalke writes: "On sunday, PalmSource (the spinoff from Palm responsible for the development of the PalmOS) announced that PalmOS 5 has gone gold. This latest version of the operating system includes support for ARM processors, Bluetooth and 802.11b, high-res displays (320x320; although Sony already uses even high res displays in its NR70) and more. Products with PalmOS 5 should start shipping in just over a months' time!"

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  1. Re:This is great news by yasth · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Huh??? It isn't even a proper RTOS. Calling it the premier embedded OS is silly and untrue. PalmOS has been a very very minor player in the embedded market. WinCE embeded almost certainly outsells by a factor of ten or more. Qnx is a far better canidate for the premier OS.

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  2. Re:moving slowly...open the source!! by foobar104 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    That is only to recoup the costs of closed source development. Costs that would not exist were the source open.

    And neither would the product. When are you people going to realize that the open source, non-commercial model doesn't work for large-scale software projects? The fact that it has resulted in good software on occasion (Apache) doesn't negate its overwhelming failures. (Mozilla, Gnome, KDE, StarOffice)