PalmSource CEO Resigns

[Ed Hardy]

PalmSource has announced that its CEO, David Nagel, has resigned, and the company has named an interim replacement.

Read more at http://www.brighthand.com/article/Pa...Down?site=Palm

[Timothy Rapson]

Well, if you were CEO of a software company whose highest end new growth product has been 3 years in the making and sold how many copies? ZERO?!
I just hope they didn't pay Nagel a lot of money. They did? Oh, so that is why the LifeDrive cost $500 and both PalmOne and PalmSource are barely making money and often losing money while rapidly losing market share? They meant to spend some money on delivering actual successful products, really they did. But, instead they spent it all on exec pay, percs, and parachutes.
So long Nagel, and probably so long Palm for this increasingly unsatisfied Palm user.

[neuron]

This year is very interesting. Last time when the HP CEO was kicked out, there was a big celebration thread in pocketpcthoughts.com. This time PS CEO get out, there is much bigger celebration in palminfocenter.com.

Seems being a CEO is not easy.

[imported_tadw]

Bob from Mobileread is currently visiting the summit and according to him PalmSource folks aren't that concerned about Nagel's sudden departure. Perhaps someone else will do a better job, so I wouldn't fret too much about it.

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...?threadid=4138

[Heyo]

Originally posted by huangzhinong
This year is very interesting. Last time when the HP CEO was kicked out, there was a big celebration thread in pocketpcthoughts.com. This time PS CEO get out, there is much bigger celebration in palminfocenter.com.

Seems being a CEO is not easy.

Yes I am sure they are personally devastated by what we are saying about them as they drive off with that golden-handshake cheque with more zero's on it than a bus full of nerds on it's way to a Star Trek convention...

[PlasticMan]

Originally posted by Timothy Rapson
Oh, so that is why the LifeDrive cost $500 and both PalmOne and PalmSource are barely making money and often losing money while rapidly losing market share?

no it isn't. nagel worked for palmsource and his salary had nothing to do with the price of a palmone pda or the profits of palmone. the two are utterly different companies.

[Timothy Rapson]

Originally posted by PlasticMan
no it isn't. nagel worked for palmsource and his salary had nothing to do with the price of a palmone pda or the profits of palmone. the two are utterly different companies.

That is hilarious!

If you can't see what a huge and failed marketing mockery of the truth that is you are blind.

I can't believe a single person bought that claptrap. PalmOne are not even remotely separate companies, much less "utterly different". It is a silly as saying Windows Mobile is an "utterly different" product completely unrelated to Windows XP. There purposes, functions, and fate are inseparably intertwined.

[Ed Hardy]

Originally posted by Timothy Rapson
It is a silly as saying Windows Mobile is an "utterly different" product completely unrelated to Windows XP.

A better comparison would be between Microsoft and HP. They are dependent on each other, but not the same company. HP's financial success doesn't have much direct effect on Microsoft, and vice versa.

Also, word on the street is PalmSource and palmOne are feuding, and barely talk to each other any more. palmOne disagrees with the direction PalmSource is taking the operating system, and PalmSource is angry that palmOne has essentially rejected Cobalt.

And you can imagine how PalmSource feels about the rumors of a Windows Mobile Treo.

No, these two companies aren't bosom buddies. They have to work together, but that's about as far as it goes.