Palm Split
The once wonderful Palm, which is attempting to regroup after a disastrous couple of years under Carl Yankowski, has split into seperate hardware and a software companies.
I can't honestly say I understand why. The Register gives this explanation, which doesn't quite make it for me:
"Less than ten per cent of Palm's overall business comes from software licensing, but it's been obliged to make the split after wealthier and more imaginative licensees (read: Sony and Handspring) chafed at having to pay good money for the privilege of not upstaging Palm's own lethargic hardware rollouts."
Well, whatever the reasons, Palm still needs to show that it has found a new way forwards. The Register again (with a reputation for plain speaking to maintain):
"Take a moment to run through Palm Inc's current executive team, here. Instead of the usual five or eight names, there are 21 executives trying to squeeze into the team photo. With many accomplished track records behind them, we don't doubt. But for example, what can a Chief Marketing Officer, a Chief Strategy Officer and a Chief Competitive Officer (the ludicrous Michael Mates, who turns up at rival developer conferences under an assumed name, and then denies that he's Michael Mates) do that one can't person can't? Except argue a lot, that is.
If Palm's got a future, it needs to tell us what it is. And then take an axe to this great, bloated Apple reunion party, if only to show that it believes it itself."
12:37:19 PM 
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