PalmSource Delivers IBM WebSphere Everyplace Micro Environment to palmOne's Treo 650 Smartphone and Tungsten T5 Handheld

PalmSource Delivers IBM WebSphere Everyplace Micro Environment to palmOne's Treo 650 Smartphone and Tungsten T5 Handheld

Palm OS Platform Gains Momentum in the Java Mobile Market

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PalmSource Inc., (NASDAQ:PSRC) provider of Palm OS(R), a leading operating system powering next generation phones and mobile devices, today announced the availability of Java Technology for Palm OS(R) Garnet, a WebSphere(TM) Everyplace Micro Environment (WEME) Java(TM) 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) certified runtime environment, for the Treo(TM) 650 smartphone and Tungsten(TM) T5 handheld from palmOne, Inc. IBM's WebSphere Everyplace Micro Environment (WEME) Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) certified runtime environment provides the technology needed to enable standards-based mobile Java applications to run on Palm Powered(TM) smart mobile devices.

WEME is currently available for the Treo 600 smartphone, the Tungsten family of products, as well as the Zire(TM) 72 handheld from palmOne, and the addition of the Treo 650 smartphone and the Tungsten T5 extends that compatibility to palmOne's latest products. Palm Powered mobile devices from palmOne are award-winning products delivering a powerful combination of form, function and style, while maintaining the Palm OS hallmarks of ease-of-use and flexibility. With keyboard and stylus data input, high-resolution displays, and an intuitive user interface, the Treo and Tungsten lines of mobile products offer enterprises and consumers compelling solutions to easily and conveniently manage professional and personal information while on-the-go.

Java and the Palm Powered Economy

Today's announcement underscores the importance of embedded Java in the mobile device arena and echoes the growing enthusiasm and support within the Palm Powered(TM) economy. Providing open-standards-based software development environments such as WEME will help forge new market opportunities for the more than 390,000 registered Palm OS developers; increase demand for Palm Powered smart mobile devices; while broadening the reach of the industry-leading Palm OS(R) platform into the burgeoning Java mobile market. In addition, Java Technology for Palm OS Garnet enables Palm Powered smart mobile devices to leverage mobile operator networks worldwide that have standardized their mobile services offerings on Java technology.

"IBM is committed to working with leading mobile operating system providers to extend computing to a wide range of mobile products and services," said Bruce Morse, Vice President, Business Development, Pervasive Computing at IBM. "Our continued collaboration with PalmSource reinforces our commitment to deliver state-of-the-art Java technology to developers so they can bring their various business applications to an increasingly mobile workforce. PalmSource is leveraging the IBM leadership role in providing middleware to help enable the connection of palmOne's Treo devices to content, information, data, transactions and applications. For developers, the programming model and award winning tools provide a familiar environment to build, test and deploy business applications to the Treo 650."

"Now, the more than 3 million members of the Java development community will be able to develop and deploy business applications for mobile workforces for the recently introduced Tungsten T5 and Treo 650," said Anthony Armenta, director of Software Product Marketing, palmOne. "Together with IBM and PalmSource, palmOne will offer customers another means to leverage their platform investment with an open-standards-based and cost-effective development environment for mobile computing."

"We believe Java Technology for Palm OS(R) Garnet will further broaden the selection of innovative Palm OS solutions available for Palm Powered smartphones and wireless devices in order to better meet the needs of mobile operators, enterprises and consumers," said Charlie Tritschler, vice president of product marketing at PalmSource. "PalmSource is committed to working with IBM, a leading provider of Java technology products, to help make Palm OS the leading mobile service-ready platform."

WEME Java Runtime Availability

IBM WebSphere Everyplace Micro Environment is part of IBM's Workplace Client Technology Micro Edition, server-managed device middleware, designed to connect enterprise data to mobile devices for sales force automation and mobile employee productivity. IBM's WebSphere Everyplace Micro Environment V5.7 can be downloaded from palmOne's Web site at www.palmOne.com/java. The Java Technology for Palm OS(R) Garnet toolkit is now available to registered software developers and can be downloaded from PalmSource's Web site at http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/java .

About PalmSource

PalmSource, Inc. is the company behind Palm OS(R), a leading operating system powering mobile information devices. Approximately 37 million Palm Powered(TM) handhelds and smartphones have been sold to date worldwide. Industry leaders Aceeca, AlphaSmart, Fossil, Garmin, GSL, Kyocera, Lenovo, palmOne, QTech, Samsung, Sony, Symbol Technologies and Tapwave license Palm OS to create diverse mobile devices that meet unique customer needs. Palm OS has given rise to a large community of users, enterprises, developers and manufacturers, who together make up the Palm Powered Economy. More information about PalmSource is available at www.palmsource.com, www.palmsource.co.uk, www.palmsource.fr, www.palmsource.de, www.palmsource.com/es, www.palmsource.com.cn.

NOTE: PalmSource, Inc., PalmSource, Palm Powered and Palm OS are trademarks or registered trademarks of PalmSource, Inc. or its affiliate in the United States, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and other countries. These marks may not be used in connection with any product or service that does not belong to PalmSource, Inc. (except as expressly permitted by a license with PalmSource, Inc.), in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among customers, or in any manner that disparages or discredits PalmSource, Inc., its licensor, its subsidiaries or affiliates.

IBM and WebSphere are trademarks of IBM Corporation. Java and Java Card are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and in other countries. Other products and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. palmOne, Treo, Zire and Tungsten are among the trademarks or registered trademarks owned by or licensed to palmOne, Inc. or its subsidiaries. All other brands, product names, company names, trademarks and service marks are the properties of their respective owners. All rights reserved.

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This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that if they never materialize or prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements regarding Java Technology for Palm OS(R) Garnet; Palm Powered(TM) mobile devices; the Palm Powered economy; and new market opportunities. The risks and uncertainties that could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements include, without limitation, the ability of Java Technology for Palm OS Garnet for the Treo(TM) 650 smartphone and Tungsten(TM) T5 handheld from palmOne to perform as expected and to meet end user demands; the ability of Java Technology for Palm OS Garnet to enable standards-based mobile Java applications to run on Palm Powered smart mobile devices; the ability of Palm OS developers to create new market opportunities using open-standards-based software development environments and the realization of the anticipated demand for Palm Powered devices and the growth of the Java mobile market; and other risks and uncertainties contained in our public announcements, reports to stockholders and other documents filed with and furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended May 28, 2004 and our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the periods ended August 27, 2004 and November 26, 2004. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to us as of the date hereof, and we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements.


Source: PalmSource, Inc.

CONTACT: Laurie Spindler of PalmSource, Inc., +1-408-400-1924, or
Laurie.Spindler@palmsource.com

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