Gartner Bullish on PalmSource Acquisition

[Ed Hardy]

Gartner analysts Todd Kort and Ken Dulaney have given their opinions on what Access' acquiring PalmSource means for the Palm OS.

Read more at http://www.brighthand.com/article/Ga...tion?site=Palm

[Timothy Rapson]

Well, they report that the new owners have the resources to complete the task of Plinux.
Then they say that Access has burdened itself with the $324 million they paid for PalmSource.

Most of the analysis seems sound and is well known by us here who have been watching. I wonder if the actual report has more details about how much Access has left to spend on Plinux. I could go for a Plinux PDA as it would add the features I want (multi-tasking, standard real graphics/fonts, and real files) but I expected that in Cobalt too. And I could have it right now if I went WinMob or Symbian.
I was using my Zire just yesterday waiting for photos to copy to my memory card and thinking how nice it would be if I could write something while waiting. Multi would have let me do that.

[wshwe]

Analysts and so-called experts are often wrong. If they were always right they'd all be billionaires.