ALP merges open source components—GIMP ToolKit (GTK+), GStreamer, and SQLite—with PalmSource’s middleware (messaging and telephony), HotSync, Palm Desktop and personal information management expertise, parent company ACCESS's Netfront Web browser, and a new graphic user interface and application framework code-named MAX. Expect both ALP and MAX to both receive new names by the time PalmSource ships the smartphone platform to manufacturers and developers.

PalmSource expects to release the ALP/MAX software development kit to software developers and hardware vendors by the end of 2006. ALP devices aren't due until later in 2007, however.