HP to License webOS?

HPHP has further ambitions for its Palm-developed webOS-- to license it to its partners providing their customers mobile services. 

CEO Léo Apotheker reveals these plans during an interview with the Wall Street Journal at the D9 conference.

“WebOS will also be adopted by many partners who provide services to small and medium businesses,” he says, before confirming that webOS will not only run on "lots of HP devices" but will be available to enterprises and SMBs. 

So, will HP consider licensing webOS to the likes of HTC (the example the WSJ gives)? Apparently yes. 

Meanwhile webOS head Jon Rubinstein confirms HP's plans, saying that while the company won't be licensing webOS "broadly", it might be doing just that with its select partners. 

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