I would rate the probability of Palm abandoning the Palm OS to be extremely small in the foreseable future. While there's some doubt as to whether ALP will be Palm's next-generation Palm OS, there should be little doubt that future Palm devices will be backwardly compatible with the Garnet API for some time.
I can't think of any good reason why someone who is already as familiar with the Palm OS as you are, Tam, would want to stop developing for Palm OS now. I was at a dinner with a bunch of Palm developers who have ported their apps to .NET Compact Framework and the results they reported were dismal. The developer tools are slick and productive, but the resulting software was either too slow to be usable, died from frequent out of memory errors, or both. You could avoid this pain by learning the Win CE API and develop for Windows Mobile in C/C++ to avoid this, but that's a dead-end API, too, and a difficult one at that. David Beers Pikesoft Mobile Computing www.pikesoft.com/blog -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
