Motorola has recently hired several engineers from Apple and Adobe who are skilled in web and mobile platforms to help them develop a new Internet-based operating system.
Motorola may be planning to use the new operating system as an alternative to Google’s Android, but sources say they don’t intend to get rid of the Android market in the near future, and they are still committed to it as an operating system. Sources say this is so that if the web-based system fails, they would still have options left. The company has been working on the project for the past nine months.
Motorola’s plans to design a new operating system may also have been put into place due to Oracle’s patent claims against Google. Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems (Java) in 2010 and filed suit because they say that Google used Java technology to make some of its computer programs operate.
