OT: HP Buys Palm
Gilles Gravier
ggravier at fsfe.org
Thu Apr 29 05:37:47 BST 2010
Finally, Palms will have GREAT keyboards (all HP is really good for),
and an RPN calculator embedded (I say YAAY to that too)!
Gilles
On 29/04/2010 04:06, Michael Haney wrote:
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=33806&tag=nl.e589
>
> HP has stepped forward and bought Palm. They have the WebOS, which is
> Linux based, and they have a grand plan to make Palm smartphones
> relevant in the business world.
>
> There's lots of speculation going on. Its clear that HP will be
> trying to take on the iPhone in the Enterprise market. Its likely
> this will help keep developers interested. Also, the idea of WebOS
> showing up in tablets from HP was brought up and isn't a far-fetched
> idea. Some comments were made that since HP now owns its own mobile
> OS that their relations with Microsoft might become strained. We'll
> see what happens.
>
>
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