Video: HP CEO Leo Apotheker. HP might license webOS.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesús.

Joshua Topolsky asked  to the HP CEO Leo Apotheker if HP will license webOS, he said:

“WebOS will also be adopted by many partners who provide services to small and medium businesses,” Apotheker said during an interview at D9 today.

“Traditionally HP has a strong channel into medium companies. … I happen to believe that WebOS is a uniquely outstanding operating system. It’s not correct to believe that it should only be on HP devices. There are all kinds of other people who want to make whatever kind of hardware they make and would like to connect them to the Internet. We’ll make it available to enteprises and to SMBs. It will run on lots of HP devices.” 


But would the company consider licensing it to say, HTC?

Said Apotheker, “It is certainly something we would entertain.”

In another post we made before Jon Rubinstein said HP might license webOS if they found a partner that will run a unique OS not various OS: Uplinq 2011