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The number of open source projects targeting mobile platforms increased at a compound annual growth rate of 55 percent between 2005 and the end of 2008 according to a new study released by open-source software management services provider Black Duck Software. After reviewing more than 185,000 projects collected from 4,000 Internet sites, Black Duck reports 2,300 of them target mobile--while 1,850 total project releases were developed expressly for the Palm platform, only 113 were created for Palm in 2008. Instead, iPhone captured the majority of open-source focus last year, with 266 project releases in 2008--Android followed with 191, trailed by Windows Mobile with 174.

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Palm was a great platform with a really well written OS and a superbly documented SDK. Mismanagement and business issues pretty much killed it, not technical problems. I have a few Palms and I've been sorry to see the demise of the company and platform.

Completely agree. I liked the hand writing recognision approach rather then those annoying little keyboards they do now. I think they abandond what made them unique and instead joined an already crowded space of qwerty keybard devices.

At least thats why I haven't bought any Palms since the Tungsten one.

Mons