Interesting there is so much negativity here about the relationship between HP and Palm on this list.
Almost all other communities are very ecstatic over the deal, and think that HP is a much better fit for Palm than Lenovo, HTC, and the other front runners. The Palm users are pleased, and the develops are extremely pleased with what HP has already promised, so is Sprint (Palm biggest carrier partner). Palm also sounds very optimistic. And their CEO, the iPhone inventor guy, will also be keeping his job. Sounds like everyone at Palm may be too. Palm will just be a separate business operating unit at HP. Palm is now on their 9th life, saved by HP. Their last couple lives I was pretty certain they would fail... I'm pretty optimistic this time around. And many others feel the same way. -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 4:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: HP to buy Palm 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/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
