Posted on 08/18/2011 4:03:05 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
HP just announced its plans to discontinue operations on webOS devices, specifically the recently announced TouchPad and webOS phones. The future of webOS is uncertain as HP simply added that it would "continue to explore options to optimize the value of webOS software going forward". This likely means that HP is looking to either license out the software or dump it in an outright sale.
At this point I don't know that HP needs to be at the helm of the webOS project. Licensing it out could generate short term revenue from companies looking to hedge their bets against Google/Motorola, but unless HP takes on a development partner I don't know that there's much of a future for webOS under HP's command.
(Excerpt) Read more at anandtech.com ...
Tech ping.
Interesting news.
Boy the woman they picked to run HP just trashed the company. Turned all their hardware into crap in just three years. Now pretty much the only relelvant software they were working on is going to be sold as scrap.
PC's are not it...
He is buying a software company also!
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The company is purchasing British software maker Autonomy PLC for a 78% premium to the stock’s closing price, roughly $10.2 billion, to improve its standing in cloud computing.
Well, that was quick.. for the tablet adventure anyway..
It’ll be interesting to see what the fall-out is from this ..
glad I didn’t go with HP Whooosh tablet! ;-)
And that same Carly Fiorina was the GOP Senate candidate against Boxer in 2010.
WTF was the GOP thinking on that one?
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