In An Internal HP Email, Meg Whitman Assures webOS’ Best Days Are Still Ahead

HP-May-Dump-CEO-for-Meg-WhitmanHP just took to the wire and announced to the tech world that webOS will live on as an open source project. Shortly thereafter, Meg Whitman informed HP employees about the decision. The internal email I obtained, which is included in its entirely after the jump, gives a bit more insight than HP's public press release including Meg's feeling that webOS will continue to grow and this is a postive move for HP and webOS alike. Whitman's email indicates that the HP leadership team saw webOS could be "a platform that is both open and has a single integrated stack." By making webOS open source, HP's short-lived OS neatly fulfills this desire. However, like the company already stated, talk of new hardware is nearly absent from the email besides stating "hardware manufacturers" (read: HP is done) will be able to continue to "contribute" webOS. The TouchPad was likely the last of the HP-branded hardware -- unless of course the open source community turns webOS into a magnificent creation worthy of new hardware. Click through for Meg Whitman's memo to HP regarding the recent announcement.

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