PalmOS + JAVA technology + PCS1000? = new Palm computers?
From this PR yesterday everything centers around OS's and JAVA tech, no mention of the microprocessor to run it all. PTSC is with SUN at the convention expo and we're porting the chip for SUN and WIND. It's fun to connect the dots. Reminds me of EDIG before it's runnup.
Can't believe there's no action on the RG and SI boards yet.
3 straight days of increasing vol with increasing price and not even near the 1M share trade day. This may be liftoff time today. Only half the shares of EDIG so it may get wild.
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 15, 1999--
Palm OS Software to Serve as a Reference Platform for a New Java
Virtual Machine Optimized for the Palm Computing Platform
3Com Corporation (Nasdaq:COMS) and Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq:SUNW) today announced their
commitment to tightly integrate Sun's Java(TM) technology with the industry-leading Palm Computing(R)
platform. At the Java Developers Conference in San Francisco's Moscone Center, Sun and 3Com outlined
plans to develop a reference port of the Java(TM) 2 Platform, Micro Edition, Sun's highly optimized Java
runtime environment for consumer products, for 3Com's Palm(TM) operating system (Palm OS(TM))
software later this year. The companies also agreed to make Sun's K Virtual Machine (KVM), formerly
known as project KJava VM, a key component of the Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition, available on the Palm
OS software. The companies will develop an end-to-end solution for delivering content and Java
applications to Palm Computing platform devices via Sun's software products.
The Palm OS software will serve as a primary reference platform for application development using KVM.
KVM brings the power, flexibility and innovation of Java technology-based applications and services to
high-volume, small-footprint consumer and business products such as handheld computing devices, mobile
phones and pagers. With KVM for the Palm Computing platform, software developers will be able to quickly
and easily extend Java technology-based applications and information to Palm Computing platform devices.
Examples of solutions that could result from such development include wireless and wired access to
corporate e-mail; applications that connect Palm Computing devices to the Internet for Java
technology-based e-commerce and electronic banking, and intranet data access solutions for highly mobile
applications such as those used in sales force automation, health care and transportation, to name a few.
Many analysts predict that the Java platform will become the dominant environment for mission-critical
business applications development. "The Palm Computing platform is the standard for giving users
seamless access to personal and mission-critical business information, wherever it resides," said Robin
Abrams, president for Palm Computing, Inc., a 3Com company. "By integrating the Palm Computing
platform with Sun's Java technology, Palm Computing products can become even more tightly integrated
with intranets and the Internet. Our combined technologies will give companies an open, standards-based
environment for rapidly distributing information to everyone in the organization, for faster and smarter
decision-making." "We are committed to working with leading device manufacturers such as 3Com to
deliver Java technology-based consumer solutions worldwide," said Mike Clary, vice president and
general manager, Consumer and Embedded, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "Devices supporting the Java 2
Platform, Micro Edition, such as the Palm family of connected organizers, will allow developers to rapidly
and cost-effectively develop, deploy and enhance e-commerce, entertainment, information and advanced
telephony services. With the Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition, wireless carriers and service providers will
be able to leverage their existing infrastructures to provide a rich variety of value-added content and
services to their customer base."
Sun will provide a developer's release of the KVM to attendees of the JavaOne '99 conference this week.
Code will be distributed on Palm V(TM) handheld devices made available at a special price to JavaOne
Conference attendees. "Another inherent benefit of this agreement is the great expansion of our respective
development communities," added Abrams. "We already have over 17,000 developers creating solutions
for the Palm Computing platform. The ability to run Java applications on our products opens up
development to tens of thousands of Java developers creating both consumer and business solutions that
can now be extended to our platform."
These joint initiatives build on the 3Com and Sun alliance to combine the strengths of their respective
technologies to enable a greater link between technical, enterprise and mobile computing. In February of
this year, the companies announced that Sun licensed Palm Computing's HotSync(R) data synchronization
technology. Sun is porting the HotSync technology to the Java platform to create Java(TM)
technology-based conduits that will provide data synchronization between Palm Computing(R) platform
handheld devices and applications running on Sun(TM) platform-based workstations. Today's announcement
demonstrates their continued commitment to bringing to market a new class of solutions built on
industry-leading technology to simplify the lives of consumers and business professionals alike.
The Palm Computing platform is the foundation for the world's leading family of handheld computing
products from 3Com including the Palm III(TM), Palm IIIx(TM), Palm V, and the new Palm VII(TM)
connected organizers, in addition to a broad range of products from Palm Computing's strategic partners.
These products include the IBM WorkPad PC companion, the Franklin-Covey Electronic DayPlanner, the
Symbol STP(TM) 1500 with built-in barcode scanning capabilities for vertical markets, and the upcoming
pdQ Smartphone from QUALCOMM. Palm Computing platform products already hold a 72 percent share of
the worldwide handheld personal companion market (IDC, November, 1998).
Steve |
