Hi all,
I did suscribe to this list more than 1 year ago, when Palm announced it joined the Khronos Group in order to promote OpenML and OpenES on PDA. We then equipped ourselves with Palm PDA's, beginning to develop while waiting for Palm OS 6...
AFAWK, at this day, Palm didn't do nothing as far as these technologies are concerned. No clue when this will be available.
On an another side, Dell is selling an OpenML / ES compatible PDA - Axim x50v - with Windows - we're not happy to develop on and for Windows, but... - that's regularly out of stock, for just a few money more than T3 for example...
For us it's clear : Palm is doing marketing announces with no real effect. Just to try to maintain on PDA's market.
So we leave. And switch to Windows Mobile, halas... Palm policy is a shame. We lost 6 months and 6 months are a huge time on technology market.
The announcement last year was that PalmSource had joined that group and was working on OpenML/OpenES technology for future OS versions. PalmSource is a distinct company from palmOne and the other Palm OS licensees, and there often is a significant lag between the time that PalmSource prepares an OS release and when it is shipped on licensee devices.
I'm sorry you misinterpreted the press release. AFAIK, PalmSource is still interested in that area, but what ultimately gets released on devices running some version of Palm OS (4.x, Garnet, Cobalt, Palm OS for Linux) depends on what features the licensees want to use.
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