Computer company HP makes its own operating system WebOS open source. That the company’s employees told at a meeting. HP bought WebOS a year and a half ago, but there has been little success with it booked.
HP continues to invest in the development of WebOS after the source code has been released, says the company. It is unclear whether the company ever even the hardware that runs on the operating system. HP wanted WebOS to use for smartphones, tablets, and printers. In the long term also had to be run on pc’s.
Probably succeeded in not HP in order to find a buyer for its mobile operating system, think ZDNet. “It is often code open source made as a last attempt to be relevant to continue.” WebOS running on HP’s Pre smartphones and TouchPad tablet. The tablet only became massively sold, when HP three-quarters of the price before you left. The tablet then became popular, shows from the fact that the TouchPad quickly was sold out. Also in the Netherlands fell the clearance sale on: the article about the sale attracted the most number of comments on a news article on Tweakers.net ever.
HP bought WebOS a year and a half ago by smartphonemaker Palm to take over. HP now refers to the website Palm.com for ideas for WebOS. There come in the future as new versions of WebOS, as promised HP. Other manufacturers may also, with the OS to work, so says HP.