Monday, November 24, 2008

Palm downsizing and working on open source products

In an attempt to keep head above water, the ailing company Palm some of its employees redundant. Palm is currently working on a Linux-based operating system and related hardware.

Palm logo Smartphone Palm operating steadily losing market share to Apple and RIM, the maker of Blackberry phones. Last year, wanted to ten percent of the companies for a Palm choose when buying a smartphone, but this year halved that percentage. Employees would prefer an iPhone or Blackberry boss of the gain, according to research firm Change Wave would be respectively 22 percent and 78 percent of the preferences of companies to find out. The reduced demand is coupled with a revenue loss that the American company requires to be slimming. Palm has announced a portion of his total in 1050 to lay off workers, but the company refuses to call numbers. However, it would have already fired the first place.

To compete with Apple and RIM to be able, if Palm focus on the development of a Linux-based operating system, Nova, and the hardware that this ox running. To that end, two former Apple employees adopted, John Rubinstein and Mike Bell, which the Nova-os and the phone must develop. The two are not the first to the best: Rubinstein was partly responsible for the development of the iPod from Apple, and Bell was in that company head of the department of product development. Palm wants the Nova operating system this year reveal, while the hardware platform for Nova in the second half of 2009 should appear.

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