Rumors of Apple buying Palm have made rounds of the blogosphere lately… Treo Today gives a couple of good reasons why this would be a good fit for Apple. I would like to add another one that I haven’t seen mentioned anywhere so far: the fact that if that buy-out was to go through, it would mean that Be assets and intellectual property would go to Apple since Palm bought Be in 2001. What does this mean? I’m not quite sure but it would at least mean that the two technologies that were at one point considered to be Mac OS’ future (NeXT and BeOS) would at long last be united under the same banner. It could be a good news for the Finder and Spotlight since some of the technologies and ideas that are now present in these originated at Be (Dominique Giampaolo, who developed BeFS, the well-liked Be file system, now works for Apple). This would sure be a pretty interesting twist on the fate of these OSes and would definitely be exciting for Apple’s future!

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