Palm announced the election of Bill Coleman, founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Cassatt, <A HREF="http://investor.palm.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=205714">to its board of directors.</A> Coleman also was a co-founder and first chief executive officer of BEA Systems, a world-leading infrastructure-software company. Prior to BEA, Coleman held various management positions at Sun Microsystems, including vice president and general manager of Sun Professional Services, vice president of system software, overseeing the Sun operating system, Solaris, and co-founder of the Sun Federal Division.