Tag archive: Garnet OS

The tangled saga of Palm's operating system is going to get twistier, if an announcement at an analyst meeting in New York by Palm CEO Ed Colligan is any indication: later this year, the company plans to combine its existing Garnet OS with a new Linux-based platform. Switching to Linux would mean that Palm would once again have its own operating system—even though late last year it managed to secure a perpetual license to the… Read More

The current owners of the Palm OS, Access Company, have announced a new branding campaign to replace its “Palm Powered” slogan and logo with a new one: “Access Powered.” As part of the effort, the Palm OS operating system will be renamed GarnetOS. Although Garnet has been the codename for versions of the Palm OS used in a variety of devices (including shipping Treo smartphones), the name change is the latest… Read More

Palm Inc. has announced it is paying $44 million to Access Systems Americas (formerly PalmSource, Inc.) for a perpetual license to the source code for Palm OS Garnet, the version of the Palm operating system used in several Palm handheld computer and smartphones, including the entries in the company's Treo line which aren't running Windows Mobile. And here's a neat trick: Palm isn't making any additional license fees… Read More