Rosas said Pure Networks brought together network OS development expertise and end user ease-of-use expertise into a product that adds a lot of value for D-Link customers.
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Remember that Mac OS X, with its support for computers with more than one processor chip, was still in development and Mac OS 9 was still king.
Their Sailfish OS is still under development, but has an Android Compatibility Layer that should answer one of the concerns of a new platform, but it still ties them to Google.
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Mozilla said it won't be launching its own hardware to run the in-development Firefox OS when it's finished, but the company has just announced a "Developer Preview Phone" for putting the OS through its paces.
For now, PalmSource will develop the Linux-based OS in concert with its existing operating system, offering it as "another flavor" of the Palm OS. There are no plans to stop development of PalmSource's latest "Cobalt" OS 6, though Limp concedes it could be eliminated at some point in the future.
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Samsung meanwhile is supporting the development of the Tizen OS for mobile phones, an HTML 5 based open source project that will shift the balance of power in mobility away from the device app store to the networks, a move that looks set to be the next disruption in smartphones.
"The key factor in its decision has been the Chinese's support of indigenous vendors such as the Chinese Academy of Science's development support of Red Flag Linux OS, " says Gartner analyst Louisa Lui.
But it has turned out to be an important milestone in the platform's development, and the first version of the OS that is suitable for anyone other than Apple's base of early adopters.
But Access' interest might not even have been the Palm OS. By acquiring PalmSource, the company gained Linux development resources for mobile devices in the U.S., France and China, including those from PalmSource's recent acquisition of China MobileSoft, a Linux software firm.
They are writing a new playbook around content, device, and connectivity and that in turn places more and more importance on the interface and OS. But these elements are really about the broader development of a platform and ecosystem business model that Nick Vitalari and I describe in The Elastic Enterprise.
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Since development is currently focused on getting the core of the desktop OS up and running, there's no tablet-specific Unity UI to see here.
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Cutting through all the talk about what will happen to its troubled Symbian operating system and future OS, Meego, new Chief Executive Stephen Elop said Nokia would streamline its development strategy for both, centering on a cross-platform framework called Qt.
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Just like the good folks promised, the early look software development kit for Google's soon-to-be huge phone OS has hit the streets... er, internet.
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