On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:45 AM, John Aldrich <[email protected]> wrote: > According to a story in my inbox this morning, HP is buying Palm for $1.2 > Billion
If I wasn't already convinced Palm was dead, this would do it. But Palm has been an animated walking corpse of a company for years now. Astoundingly bad management at that company. Shame, they were quite innovative for a time, had a great product originally, and practically invented the mainstream handheld computer market. All things shall pass, I guess. To me, this says more about HP. I can't believe they spent a gigabuck on Palm. Just for some multi-touch software that's already under patent litigation, and with HP already being heavily partnered with MSFT in the same product space? But then, IMNSHO, HP hasn't been the same company since they spun off Agilent. I can't imagine what Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard would think of what has become of the company they founded. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
