The first full day of the conference brought a lot of news and some good sessions. The big deal was the announcement of palmOne's new license agreement for Palm OS, and their purchase of the name "Palm" from PalmSource. I don't have any details outside of the press release; it looks like palmOne will be changing its name back to Palm in the near future, and that PalmSource has a few years to rebrand itself and its OS.
Outside that note, this morning's keynote address wasn't very surprising. I caught a bit of the palmOne talk with new Senior VP Mark Bercow which mainly was about our product line strategy and how we rely on developers to produce interesting software. While working the palmOne booth on the exhibit floor, the most common questions were "can I play with a LifeDrive?" and "what's the difference between the different Treo 650s you're selling in the store?".
This evening was fun; I was one of the on-stage experts for the "Stump the Experts" panel. We didn't have a huge number of questions from the audience, but it was enough to fill the hour, and I got to pitch in on some NVFS and Sony questions. After that, I hung out at the hardware labs and mostly answered CodeWarrior questions. I also helped one of the PalmSource engineers get their PalmRC compiler plugin for CodeWarrior working better; this is one of the tools available as part of the PalmSource Inside Track program, and it's pretty nice for people who want to use the XRD format with the CW V9 tools.