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Scripta manent…
What you’ll find is a lot of information that goes to the core of Oracle’s argument that HP has a lot to lose if the Itanium chip goes end of life, which is exactly what Oracle has said Intel plans to do. As the only major server vendor who sells boxes running Itanium chips, HP makes a lot of money — billions of dollars, according to a newly unredacted statement in the filing — on service-and-support contracts with its Itanium customers. As one HP executive is quoted on page four of the filing, without Itanium, HP would be “strategically screwed.”
Filing: Without Itanium Chip, HP Is "Strategically Screwed" – Arik Hesseldahl – News -… Continue reading: Filing: Without Itanium Chip, HP Is "Strategically Screwed" – Arik Hesseldahl – News – AllThingsD
To summarize: he didn’t have any control (as Palm CEO), and it wasn’t his fault…
On the heels of the news of his departure from HP Friday, Apple veteran and onetime Palm head Jon Rubinstein spoke with AllThingsD about the move and the fate of Palm’s webOS.
Why leave Hewlett-Packard now?
Interview: With webOS Transition Under Way, Rubinstein Leaves HP – John Paczkowski – News – AllThingsD
Continue reading: Interview: With webOS Transition Under Way, Rubinstein Leaves HP – John Paczkowski – News – AllThingsD
Sign of the times
Apple sold 15.4 million iPads and 5.2 million Macs in its first quarter. That’s more than 20 million personal computing devices. HP’s PC sales for the fourth quarter were 14.7 million, according to Gartner. Which means Apple’s iPad sales alone surpassed HP’s PC sales, as Apple Insider first noted.
Apple Sold More iPads Than HP Sold PCs – John Paczkowski – News – AllThingsD
Continue reading: Apple Sold More iPads Than HP Sold PCs – John Paczkowski – News – AllThingsD
Excerpt from a Palm post mortem
WebOS turned out to be something of a toxic asset. Several former Palm and H.P. employees involved in WebOS say that there was little hope for the software from the beginning, because the way it was built was so deeply flawed.
“Palm was ahead of its time in trying to build a phone software platform using Web technology, and we just weren’t able to execute such an ambitious and breakthrough design,” said Paul Mercer, former senior director of software at Palm, who oversaw the interface design of WebOS and recruited crucial members of the team. “Perhaps it never could have been executed because the technology wasn’t… Continue reading: H.P.’s TouchPad, Some Say, Was Built on Flawed Software – NYTimes.com
Concluding paragraphs of a WebOS reality check
Open Source WebOS, then, is really an anti-IBM and -Oracle (Sun) strategy more than anything else. So that’s what Leo Apotheker had in mind! But it can only work if HP makes WebOS truly open to the point of publishing APIs they might otherwise have kept hidden.
Whitman may talk a good game, but I don’t think her troops are ready to be that bold. I think they’ll flinch, perhaps without even telling her, and make WebOS a little less open than it should be. And by doing so they’ll let WebOS fail.
Again.
I, Cringely » Blog Archive »… Continue reading: I, Cringely » Blog Archive » The once and future WebOS – Cringely on technology
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