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Palm Kicks Off Campus Developer Program at EDUCAUSE

Show Features Palm Handheld Computers, Applications and Tools for College Instructors

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 10, 2000 - Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq: PALM) today at the EDUCAUSE 2000 Conference launched its Campus Developer Program, which offers Palm-developed curriculum materials at a greatly reduced cost to colleges and high schools teaching students how to develop software for the Palm OS(R) platform.

The program is available to any college or school offering students a for-credit Palm OS class as part of their computer science curriculum. Program participants pay only $1,000 for a one-year license to use Palm-developed curriculum materials and the Palm OS developer documentation. The program allows learning institutions to leverage their classes in Code Warrior and other Palm OS development environments. Universities and high schools will be able to offer classes in Palm OS programming essentials and communications, development of Palm OS conduits for Windows, and advanced debugging and testing. Colleges and high schools will have rights to use the same Palm OS developer training materials as corporate developers and entrepreneurs.

"Just as we have a high demand from students for our family of Palm(TM) handheld computers, we're getting requests from students and computer science instructors who want to get engaged in developing skills for the Palm OS market," said Mike Lorion, vice president of education at Palm, Inc. "Students want to learn, and teachers want to teach the latest technologies -- and we're eager to encourage new engineering talent and student-developed Palm OS applications."

Participants in the Palm Campus Developer Program are eligible for discounts on some Palm handhelds used in the classes teaching Palm OS development, as well as access to Palm's developer website, newsletter and solutions provider support information.

To learn about course-delivery requirements and apply for a license, instructors may send an email to academic@palm.com.

Also this week at the EDUCAUSE conference, at Palm's booth (No. 434), Palm and the following seven developers are demonstrating Palm's entire family of handheld computers and accessories, the Palm HotSync® Server, Multimail and a variety of tools to improve the productivity of college instructors and enable them to make learning more compelling.

• Blackboard -- online teaching, distance learning and resource centers;
• DataViz -- developers of Documents To Go that enable viewing of word processing and spreadsheets on Palm handhelds;
• ibrite -- authoring tools for transforming content into applications for handheld computers;
• Intrinsigo -- services and software enabling the creation, distribution and management of media-rich, interactive content;
• Intuitive Networks' Prometheus -- Web-based online course software that enables easy sharing of course information among students and updating of information by instructors;
• Peanutpress.com -- an easy-to-use information and retrieval system for accessing the full text of reference, scholarly and professional books; and
• Ucompass.com's Educator and Wireless Educator -- Web-based course management systems.

About Palm, Inc.
Palm, Inc. is a pioneer in the field of mobile and wireless Internet solutions and a leading provider of handheld computers (source: IDC, December 1999). Based on the Palm OS platform, Palm's handheld solutions allow people to carry and access their most critical information with them wherever they go. Palm handhelds address the needs of individuals, enterprises and educational institutions through thousands of application solutions. The Palm OS platform is also the foundation for products from Palm's licensees and strategic partners, such as Cresenda Wireless; ePocrates, Inc.; Franklin-Covey; Handspring; IBM; Sony; Symbol Technologies; and TRG. Platform licensees also include Kyocera and Nokia. Palm went public on March 2, 2000. Its stock is traded on the Nasdaq national market under the symbol PALM. More information is available at www.palm.com.

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