From [[http://palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=7946|Palm Info Center]]:
In last weeks PalmSource conference call interim CEO Patrick McVeigh also announced the company is shifting all engineering efforts on the future Linux based versions of the Palm OS.
He stated, “We are delaying all development of products not directly related to this.”
He also put a timetable on the release of the upcoming linux Palm OS products. The version for low end and feature phones is planned to be completed by summer 2006 and a high end version for smartphone is expected to be ready in the second half of next year.
PalmSource seemed to almost be floating the “Hey, if you don’t like Cobalt we could put it on Linux” in front of licensees and potential licensees as an experiment. Was anyone interested? Can we get out of our nightmare by doing this? The answer seems to be yes. With luck, the Palm OS on Linux efforts will be more streamlined and less like the [[en:second system|nightmare]] that Cobalt became.
The downside is that it means the very soonest we could see modern Palm OS devices is summer 2006. I wonder if Palm OS will have a new name by then?