Sony stops its PDA business unit!!

Sony has surprised everybody by announcing that it will stop selling new PDA in Europe and in the US. In short term, Sony will empty the current stocks for both market area; while it will continue to develop new products for the Japanese market.
This is a very bad news for PalmSource software division, as Sony was the main consumer, and it also means that Palm will continue to loose market shares to the PocketPC-based PDA...
If Sony will not suffer so much from the stop of its international PDA business, this action might quickly "kill" Palm...