[olug] Palm up for sale

[Benjamin Watson]

Perhaps, but if you look at current smart phone market share by OS,
Android + WebOS are still well below Windows Mobile, iPhone OS, RIM,
and Symbian.  That being said, the same source (Gartner) is
forecasting Android to rise to the number 2 slot by 2012 (unless the
world ends by then).

http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1306513


On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:41 PM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com> wrote:
> If they bought out a rival to Android, it could bring down anti-trust
> investigators.
>
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Benjamin Watson <bwatson1979 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm surprised that Google isn't interested, even if it is only to gain
>> Intellectual Property rights for defense against a possible Apple
>> instigated mobile patent war.
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:15 PM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Intel, Dell and HTC have all looked at trying to make their own mobile
>>> offering. HTC makes great hardware and usually uses Android currently.
>>> But I could see Intel, Dell or HTC buy out Palm to take over their new
>>> Web OS mobile software stack.
>>>
>>> -- T. J.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Chad Homan <choman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Bloomberg: Palm Has Put Itself Up for
>>>> Sale<http://www.osnews.com/story/23143/Bloomberg_Palm_Has_Put_Itself_Up_for_Sale>
>>>>  Linked by Thom Holwerda <http://www.osnews.com/editor/11> on Mon 12th Apr
>>>> 2010 14:34 UTC, submitted by Governa <http://www.osnews.com/user/Governa/>
>>>>  [image: PDAs, Cellphones, Wireless]
>>>> <http://www.osnews.com/topics/17>Despite a relatively solid product,
>>>> it seems like Palm's last ditch effort
>>>> to turn the company around have failed. Bloomberg is reporting that the
>>>> Sunnyvale company has put itself up for
>>>> sale<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=arvXvuu.DqW4>,
>>>> and is currently working with Goldman Sachs and Qatalyst Partners to find a
>>>> buyer. They claim both HTC as well as Lenovo are interested in buying Palm.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Chad, CISSP
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