>Is this actually going on?
Let me give you some clarifying content from the press release.
The announcement is that Nokia and Palm Computing announced a joint
development and licensing agreement to create a new pen-based product
category.
Nokia is licensing the Palm OS software so it can run it on the Symbian
platform - specifically this means running it on the EPOC kernel, I
understand. The Palm OS software already runs on an off-the-shelf kernel,
so supporting a different kernel isn't earthshattering in and of itself.
"Nokia and Palm Computing are committed to maintain a high level of
backward compatibility for current Palm applications, thus ensuring that a
majority of existing applications will be supported on this next generation
of products. Nokia and Palm Computing expect to disclose information on
the development environment and tools during the next 12 months".
Things are exciting in the Palm Economy... of course there's a limited
amount of public detail on this new agreement and the resultant products
planned, but feel free to ask questions and (if possible) I'll answer them.
-David Fedor
Palm Developer Support
