Access Linux Platform delayed until "first half of 2007" [Updated]
By Cyrus Farivar 
posted Dec 13th 2006 5:04PM
posted Dec 13th 2006 5:04PM
Earlier this year (wow, February seems like an eternity ago), we told you how Access was going to relaunch and rebrand the next version of Palm OS, called Access Linux Platform, which was supposed to be in the hands of licensees by the end of the year. Well, the end of 2006 is almost upon us, and now Access has announced that the version won't get to developers until sometime "in the first half of 2007." We're guessing that translates to "we've got no product" for now, and guys, we're bummed. Still, this has no apparent effect on Palm, given that it has no immediate plans to use ALP -- it's sticking to licensing Palm OS Garnet from Access. And yes, that's the same ol' version Palm's been using since the beginning of recorded time. No bitterness here.[Via Phone Scoop]
Update: Access now says that a pre-release version of ALP PDK will be out by year's end "to select licensees, and a pre-release version of the ACCESS Linux Platform SDK [will be available] to select registered developers before the end of this year, and that general availability would be in the first half of 2007." [Source: PalmInfocenter]
Firstly: FIRST POST WOOT
Second: FIRST FN POST
The idea of a linux mobile device thrills me to no end. Please oh please get this out. They dang well better do it justice too. I couldn't stand it if it sucked.
Palm and PalmSource are very separate entities as the recent purchase of Garnet proved. Palm is wise to go its own path here - PalmSource seems to have got sidetracked onto a deluded vision of Linux-core Palm OS as a mass telephony platform. Hence, ignoring their core customers, such as Palm. It's like taking your family for granted.
The thing that really *really* annoys me about things like this is... they killed a perfectly good, albeit not widely used, OS in the process.
The whole BeOS/Garnet fiasco really sticks in my throat and whoever came up with the idea to a) buy BeOS and strip them of their engineers and b) can the whole thing as a bad idea afterall, should be shot!
For a good insider summary of why Palm and PalmSource have gone their separate ways with the Palm OS, see Dianne Hackborn's post on Ars Technica.
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums?q=Y&a=tpc&f=174096756&m=717006832831#105005932831
so, basically, its like one is on the dark side of the force, uh?
wiisaber fight!
...to developers in early 2007????!??!!!??? Does that mean that we wont see any smartphones with Access 'till 2008?