As Hewlett-Packard looks forward to work through its inherited webOS operating system by installing it on more and more products, now the technology giant is also considering licensing the unique software to some specially select hardware partners. This Wednesday, two of the elite company executives claimed that they truly deem that webOS, which was acquired by HP along with its founding company Palm last year, generate more interest and development in the PC market. The PC operating system market is currently dominated with a large leap by Microsoft's Windows and the mobile OS market remains in the leadership of Google's Android, followed sharply by Apple's iOS.
HP’s CEO Leo Apotheker was at The Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital conference in Rancho Palos Verdes this Wednesday, when he asserted: "I happen to believe that webOS is a uniquely outstanding operating system." He mentioned that all kinds of users should be able to make use of whatever hardware they like and still use webOS with it. He announced that the company will do all its best to make the operating system available for large enterprises to SMBs. He said “It will run on lots of HP devices." The statements of Apotheker regarding webOS were also later published online by the Journal. Apotheker took charge as the CEO of the company just last September, and one of his initial motives was to promote webOS. He claimed that it’s regretful that the company has not already attempted to market webOS, saying that "It would have made life easier."
On the same day, another top official of HP in command of webOS, Jon Rubinstein, also declared that "HP is more than willing to partner with one or two special companies." However, no indication has yet been made by the company, or its officials, regarding any intention to make the operation system open source for anyone who wants it. It was published by PC World, that the VP of Apple Inc., Rubinstein, attending the Qualcomm's Uplinq conference, also stated that "if someone wants to put a real focus on contributing and building the webOS ecosystem, that would be something we're interested in."
HP already has its strategies straightened up to make more use of webOS and install the operating system on most of its high-end printers along with its manufactured computers. Quite expectedly HP is first going to install the operating system in collaboration with Windows, beginning with its TouchPad tablet launching this summer.
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