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http://www.access.co.jp/english/press/060214.html
2006.02.14
ACCESS and PalmSource Announce the ACCESS Linux Platform
New commercial-grade Linux-based platform designed for smartphones and mobile devices
·Open, Flexible and Customizable
·Intuitive and Easy-to-Use
·Total Integrated Solution
3GSM World Congress, BARCELONA, Spain-February 14, 2006---ACCESS
Co., Ltd., and its wholly owned subsidiary, PalmSource, Inc., today
announced the ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP), the latest evolution of Palm
OS(R) for Linux. The ACCESS Linux Platform is designed to be
an integrated, open and flexible Linux-based platform tailored for
smartphones and mobile devices.
ACCESS' goal is to have ALP become the platform of choice for
the development of high volume, feature rich smartphones and mobile
devices for high performance networks, including 2.5G and 3G,
worldwide. ALP is designed to provide a complete, consistent and
customizable solution for handset and mobile device manufacturers and
mobile operators. ACCESS and PalmSource expect to make the ALP Software
Developer Kit (SDK) available to its licensees by the end of this year
(2006).
"We believe that ALP combines best-in-class open source Linux
components with proven mobile technologies developed by PalmSource and
ACCESS' Linux expertise," said Toru Arakawa, president and CEO of
ACCESS, Co., Ltd. "As a commercial-grade, flexible, open, robust and
standards-based mobile Linux based platform, ALP is designed to provide
handset manufacturers with faster time-to-market while supporting the
goal of operators to offer revenue-generating services, applications
and content."
ACCESS Linux Platform
An open and flexible software platform - Major components of ALP include:

• Standard, commercial-grade Linux kernel -version 2.6.12 and above
  
• Optimized implementation of GIMP ToolKit (GTK+) - popular open source libraries for the creation of graphical user interfaces
  
• GStreamer - an open source, modular and multi-threaded streaming media framework
  
• SQLite -a high-performance database engine commonly used in embedded devices
  

Where appropriate, open source components used in
ALP are extended and certified by the Company. For example, ACCESS and
PalmSource will enhance and certify the open source BlueZ libraries to
provide ALP with a Bluetooth(R) 2.0 technology compliant software stack.
A number of ACCESS and PalmSource technologies have been incorporated into ALP, including:

• ACCESS NetFrontTM browser  - a
  proven success with over 200 million deployments in 721 commercial
  products for more than 30 handset and 90 Internet device manufacturers
  worldwide
  
• PalmSource messaging and telephony middleware -a highly modular and scalable implementation
  
• PalmSource mobile applications including PIMs, multimedia, messaging, PalmSource HotSync(R) and Palm Desktop -includes the recognized ease-of-use that users expect
  
• SQLite -a high-performance database engine commonly used in embedded devices
  

By combining ACCESS' robust NetFront browser platform, its extensive
business relationships with over 30 handset vendors and Linux expertise
with PalmSource's advanced operating system, application portfolio,
user interface and developer community, the Company believes that ALP
will provide the market with a comprehensive yet flexible and
integrated commercial-grade Linux based solution for the mobile market.
Accelerating innovation - ALP features MAX, an
innovative application framework designed by ACCESS and PalmSource to
deliver an intuitive, easy-to-use user experience and user interface
for smartphones and mobile devices. MAX will seamlessly support the
concurrent operation of multiple applications and tasks. It will also
provide easy access to background tasks. Designed to deliver a
predictable and intuitive navigation model for both one- and two-handed
user interface schemes, the MAX framework offers the flexibility to
support five-way navigation and two dedicated keys, as well as
touch-screen and stylus input mechanisms.
Enabling customization - In addition to the MAX application framework, ALP is designed to support the existing Palm PoweredTM
Economy, the J2ME developer community and the open source community.
This flexibility in choosing application models and user experiences
enables handset manufacturers and operators to customize their
offerings.
Providing new opportunities for developers - The
mobile Linux market is expected to grow from shipments of 3.5 million
in 2005 to 28.1 million by 2010, according to the industry analyst firm
Informa*. This presents new opportunities for both Palm OS(R)
and Linux third-party developers. ALP has been designed to ensure that
properly written Palm OS 68K applications will run unchanged. We
believe that this compatibility will enable PalmSource's robust
community of over 420,000 registered developers to potentially reach
new customers and markets.
In addition, ALP, because it includes open source components including
GTK and GStreamer, can support a wide variety of third party Linux
applications and services. ACCESS and PalmSource plan to provide the
developer community with development tools and SDKs to enable them to
port existing applications and develop new applications for ALP.
Building a Mobile Linux Ecosystem - Much like
PalmSource gave rise to the Palm Powered Economy, ACCESS and PalmSource
are focused on enriching the broader Mobile Linux Ecosystem. The first
step in this mission is to make ALP is the most service-ready platform
for smartphones and mobile devices by providing leading mobile
operators the opportunity to collaborate with ACCESS and PalmSource and
integrate their feedback and requirements into the ALP development
efforts. Secondly, ACCESS and PalmSource will work closely with leading
developers to optimize their applications to run on the ALP platform.
We believe that doing these things will help build and grow a robust
mobile Linux ecosystem that benefits developers, operators and handset
manufacturers while providing end users with a wide range of
applications to meet the needs of a diverse range of industries and
consumers.
Contributing to the Open Source Community - ACCESS and
PalmSource have contributed Open Binder, a component object framework,
similar in general concept to DCOM and CORBA, but better scaled for use
on small devices. Open Binder provides a unique inter-process
communication (IPC) paradigm implemented as a kernel-loadable driver,
and incorporates a broad range of programmatic utility classes and
frameworks. PalmSource and ACCESS have released the Binder driver and
its associated frameworks to the open source community. For more
information, see www.openbinder.org.
Industry Support for ACCESS Linux Platform
"The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum is dedicated toward
specifying an application development environment for Linux based
mobile, fixed and convergence phones that will enable developers to
write applications and have them run on any LiPS compliant phone
profile," said Haila Wang, president and chairman of LiPS.
"PalmSource/ACCESS is a leading contributor to LiPS and its new ACCESS
Linux Platform embraces this philosophy. This approach will help
handset makers and operators to bring phones to the market more quickly
and at lower cost."
"The mobile Linux market has great potential and delivers
benefits to all market participants - from ISVs to device manufacturers
to the mobile user, " said Stuart Cohen, CEO of Open Source Development Labs (OSDL),
the global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux.
"An offering, such as the ACCESS Linux Platform, that incorporates and
supports mobile Linux standards, can only help foster the growth of
this market. PalmSource is doing very important work with mobile Linux
and its participation in OSDL's Mobile Linux Initiative is a great
asset to the marketplace."
"Freescale is seeing significant interest for Linux-based
solutions to complement our MXC platforms-part of Freescale's portfolio
of comprehensive solutions for mobile phones," said Findlay Shearer, cellular platform marketing manager, Freescale Semiconductor.
The introduction of the ACCESS Linux Platform further accelerates the
availability of commercial grade Linux offerings for the high-growth
mobile market"
"As an industry leader in supporting Linux-based platforms, Intel is
pleased to see another industry proof-point for the growing demand for
Linux-based solutions in the mobile phone market segment," said Mark Casey, general manager, Applications Processor Business Unit for the Handheld Platform Group, Intel Corporation.
"Intel looks forward to our continuing relationship with PalmSource and
ACCESS to deliver solutions for next generation Intel XScale(R) processor-based devices."
"As the largest provider of software distribution solutions to the Palm
Powered Economy, Motricity is excited about the opportunities that the
ACCESS Linux Platform will provide for applications developers and
consumers," said Larry Wallace, vice president of business development for Motricity. "The
open software platform will provide increased opportunities for content
providers to innovate and expand the possibilities that mobile
computing provide for consumers and enterprise customers."
"NEC Electronics offers platformOViA (Open, Value Interface
for your Applications) semiconductor solution platform, which enables
set manufacturers to significantly reduce development times for new
products. PlatformOViA allows customers to build a platform framework
optimized for a variety of product-lines such as mobile, automotive and
digital consumer electronics, inducing maximum performance of System
LSI (NEC's technology that puts an entire system on a single silicon
chip)," said Seiji Mitsuoka, Vice President, System Software Development Operations Unit, NEC Electronics Corporation.
"ACCESS Linux Platform has an important role for platformOViA in the
mobile phone market and will enable us to further offer high-quality
solutions."
"NTT DoCoMo has been a pioneer in the Linux mobile phone
market since it began shipping the Linux-based FOMA 3G handset. To
date, millions of the FOMA 3G handsets have been shipped, which we
believe demonstrates the strength and potential of the Linux-mobile
phone market," said Dr. Kiyohito Nagata, Ph.D., vice president and managing director, Product and Service Division, NTT DoCoMo.
"We are excited about the ACCESS Linux Platform and expect ACCESS and
PalmSource to lead further development of the Linux-based phone and
application market."
"Samsung is looking carefully at the ACCESS Linux Platform
powered by PalmSource. We hope that customers can enjoy an enhanced
multimedia experience through flexible and open Linux operating
systems," stated Kitae Lee, president of Telecommunication Network Business of Samsung Electronics.
"We will adapt the advanced technology faster than any others and keep
providing customers with a variety of choices of technologies."
From Telefonica Moviles España: "At Telefonica Moviles España
we are always looking for innovative solutions that enable us to more
effectively deliver new customized operator services. It benefits not
only the industry, but also our customers. We support the openness,
flexibility and ability for customization that the ACCESS Linux
Platform will provide."
"Texas Instruments (TI) is committed to driving wireless
innovation and enabling new market opportunities through support for
mobile Linux," said Markus Tremmel, worldwide manager of TI's Cellular System Ecosystem.
"We welcome the ACCESS Linux Platform as it provides a complete
ecosystem of solutions for our OMAPTM platform customers to leverage
and allows development costs to be spread over a broad portfolio of
mobile devices."
"Wind River shares ACCESS' commitment to helping handset
manufacturers and operators provide their customers with a powerful,
easy-to-use mobile phone," said Kevin Curry, strategic alliance manager at Wind River.
"We believe that the ACCESS Linux Platform is a natural extension to
Wind River's device software platform and development suite offering."
About ACCESS Co., Ltd.
ACCESS (Tokyo Stock
Exchange: 4813) is a global provider of mobile content delivery and
Internet access technologies to the beyond-PC market. Its NetFrontTM
browser, widely recognized as one of the most advanced Internet
browsers in the world, is a cornerstone to the Company's vision of
making the ubiquitous Internet a reality. NetFront technologies are
delivering full Internet browsing and related services to
next-generation mobile devices and consumer electronics ranging from
digital TV to automobile telematics. NetFront browser recently
surpassed 214 million deployments globally, representing 721 unique
devices from global manufacturers (as of September 20, 2005). For more
information:
www.access.co.jp
or
www.access.co.jp/english
.
About PalmSource, Inc.
PalmSource, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of ACCESS Co., Ltd, is the Company behind Palm OS(R),
a leading operating system powering mobile devices and phones.
PalmSource's products include a wide range of software for mobile
phones at all price points. More than 40 million mobile phones,
handhelds, and other mobile devices run PalmSource software. PalmSource
and Palm OS have given rise to a large community of users, enterprises,
developers and manufacturers, who together make up the Palm PoweredTM 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
and
www.palmsource.com.cn
.
* Informa Telecom & Media "Future Mobile Handsets 7th Edition" Report, October 2005
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any use of such marks by ACCESS Co., Ltd., are used under license. All
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third party products, features, functions, specifications, release
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