In this quarter HP company declared about the intentions to acquire palm company, noted for its palmtops and the operating system webOS. As we explained later, precisely the desire to obtain access to WebOS became for HP the main motive. Operating system will be installed not only on smart phone and plane-table computers HP, but also in printers.
Last Friday palm shareholders approved transaction with HP. It already obtained approval by the councils of directors from both companies. Final actions on the transaction will be made in first July this year. It is expected that the shareholders Of palm will obtain from HP one billion two hundred million dollars.
HP attempt to calm down webOS workers, promising to preserve life of this operating system.