HP has returned to being able to sell webOS
The acquisition of the operating system webOS Palm with company did not get a good management decision to call Hewlett-Packard. Moreover, the operating system webOS not too successful, and within the company Palm - models came out quite a bit with the task to save the company, the developer is unable to cope. Not too long as it copes with perfecting invested in the acquisition of Palm 1,2 billion - smartphones are produced and sold in very small quantities, but only one plate was removed from the market just a month after launch. Sales of HP Touchpad headway only when they started to sell for less than $ 100. However, since HP had to change the executive director and the company began to reorganize the revision of priorities. Even there was a proposal to sell the business of manufacturing computer hardware, but later this idea was still rejected. Now, on these Reuters news agency guidance HP is considering the possibility of selling the operating system, webOS. According to some, it can be sold for several hundred million dollars. Among the possible buyers of the company called Oracle. Development costs of the operating system inside HP is clearly not possible to calculate a profit in the foreseeable future, and the sale could offset some of the costs incurred in acquiring Palm. At the same time, the question remains open to the fact that webOS is associated with a number of patents that affect other devices, except for smartphones. According to an anonymous source Reuters, the idea of selling the operating system was not born inside HP, and it was advised by representatives of Bank of America, while in the company of the owner considered the possibility of a simple termination of the OS.
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