Everything and the Mobile Software Universe…

It’s done, kind of officially : first this one

Palm pays $44m for Palm OS source code license

Everything and the Mobile Software Universe… » Palm pays $44m for Palm OS source code license | Reg Hardware

Then this:

PalmInfocenter reports that Opera and Palm have cinched a deal to deliver the Opera 9 browser on future Palm products
…The Blazer browser that Palm has used in most of their products for years is a customized version of NetFront that they license from ACCESS…

Software Everywhere » Palm distances itself further from ACCESS

To finish here is, I think very good news for palm

Palm Announces New Linux Based Mobile Platform Posted By: Ryan Kairer on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 6:24:15 AM Today at Palm Inc’s Analyst Day, Palm CEO Ed Colligan officially announced that Palm will deliver a new Linux and open source based mobile computing platform combined with Palm OS Garnet technology on new products later this year…Colligan also revealed that this was a new platform that Palm has been working on, in house for a number of years. He stated that Palm would not license this new OS to outside hardware companies, meaning this will be a Palm exclusive platform…Colligan said that “clearly we [Palm] have been working on a major new area that has been speculated about in the press and talked about by Jeff Hawkins. Hawkins previously dropped major hints that he would reveal more details for Palm fans at an upcoming conference in May.

Palm Announces New Linux Based Mobile Platform

Here are some Ed Colligan slides on the subject:

So to sum-up:

• Palm get the old PalmOS back in house for 44 Millions $, meaning they want to sell millions of phones using this OS (as it or as a Linux layer?)
• Palm licensed Opera, and not access browser for its future products (and not webkit??? why such a move?? perhaps for the opera widgets approach?)
• Palm was working on its own OS for YEARS! and so they will have again full control over their product! why iPhone looked sooo good? because software and hardware were so well integrated and in control…
• I can’t wait until May when this new class of devices will be revealed….so perhaps I won’t buy an MS smartphone