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ZDNet: Palm busy buying software maker Be. Some notes on legacy applications and licenses:

Be’s future with the eVilla appears shaky.

“The OS will continue to be
supported within eVilla,” Sony spokeswoman Gretchen Griswold said.
However, Griswold said, how that will occur is unclear. Among the options
under consideration is having Palm support the eVilla OS, she said.

However, Palm said it has
no plans to further develop the Be operating system as a standalone
OS.

“We
don’t plan to take on the Sony license for eVilla. We may decide to
provide some transitional support for Sony if we can structure it
appropriately,” Somsak said.