Irony Alert: 3Com and Palm will both be under the HP umbrella 14
HP Exec Tom Bradley's history with Palm isn't the only small-world-of-silicon-valley story today.
Those familiar with the intricacies of Palm's corporate history might remember one of the previous dark times (there have been several): back in 1997, Palm was part of US Robotics which was then purchased by 3Com. Things went so poorly with 3Com that the core team behind PalmOS, including Jeff Hawkins, Ed Colligan, and Donna Dubinsky left to found PalmOS licensee Handspring - the original creators of the Palm Treo. Handspring came back to Palm in 2003 to form PalmOne, they spun off PalmSource to handle the software. Keeping hardware separate from software brought about the foibles that killed off PalmOS and necessitated the creation of webOS in the first place.
HP, who hopes to finish their acquisition of Palm by July 31st, just finished their acquisition of 3Com. HP is taking Cisco on with 3Com and the two divisions probably won't have much effect on each other - but still, the company picnics should be schadenfreude-riffic.
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I've been there from the start and remember....good things always survive....if not in their original form. The best is yet to come.
I, too, have been there from the start.
My first palm said "USRobotics" on it.
My second one said "3com" on it.
Wish i'd held on to all those palm devices now...ha. Along with that old Kaypro II.
I think this is great!!
At first I was worried for Palm, but being and EDS, now HP employee, I know for sure PALM will now have success!
this is good info
The difference is that Palm and 3Com are now at the same level, rather than 3Com screwing Palm up big time.
That is some damn good news!!!!! Now we will probably catch up to these other o.s. on apps. Can't wait to see these new apps and some needed apps like iheartradio, NBA live, sling box........and the list goes on. Keeping my hopes up.
oh yes oh yes oh yes, I am very happy about this news. Now, I will not have any second thought of keeping my palm pre.
That is some damn good news!!!!! Now we will probably catch up to these other o.s. on apps. Can't wait to see these new apps and some needed apps like iheartradio, NBA live, sling box........and the list goes on. Keeping my hopes up.
I can now hold my head high again, for a while there I was gettin blasted by haters (apple and android fanboys) tellin me Palm is goin out of business. Now they aint got shit on Palm with HP backing it up, HELL YEAH
Maybe maybe MAYBE HP/Palm will come out with a PDA once again without this Google dependency. With both palm and iPaq products in the same family now, there should be some amazing PDA/Phones to best RIM and bring back the kinds of products Palm USED to make.
what happen to all of those that wanted to jump ship to the htc evo. where are you all now!!!!!!
fatality XD
Lets just hope no one comes up with bright ideas like the splitting off of the operating system again.