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told Le Figaro that webOS will be completed by two weeks - while staff are still dripping away, impressed by his experience

"If you think that the last six months of HP looked funky from the outside, all I can say is that from the inside, it was a roller coaster with brakes defective and missing a wheel. .. this disaster could be a case study for business schools in the coming years. "

are those, you may be wondering, the words of newly appointed CEO of Hewlett-Packard, Meg Whitman? Let's certainly been a roller coaster in recent years. Carly Fiorina, ousted in February 2005, and is followed by Mark Hurd, and things seem quiet - except a bit of spying on its own board members - until their relationship begins with a "welcome" and accusations of fiddling expenses. Then he hires Leo Apotheker of SAP, stay with her for almost a year, but then containers for Whitman.

So anyway, a roller coaster with faulty brakes?

No, there are words of Whitman - ferrets from an employee of HP, which are meeting and watched the company decides to sell its own shelves and get rid of its PC division and then that it would return to have their own bars (approximate cost $ 2 billion) and continue to sell Windows at Microsoft. On the roller coaster, of course.

So now, here Whitman said in an interview with French daily Le Figaro (and here is the Google Translate version of the interview).

She says, on the future of webOS:

We announce our decision in the next two weeks. This is not an easy decision, because we have a team of 600 people who are in limbo. We need another operating system.

(She actually said "operating system" in the original, the last sentence. "We Have to need the other OS" Wikipedia.fr confirms that it is " the operating system. ")

My bet: webOS is blown.

What is clear is

why

Whitman think HP needs a different operating system - and he managed to burn much money on the success (so far) to buy Palm webOS, followed by the fire sale of the TouchPad, and abandoned. Of course, the TouchPad has taken market share (how could it not at a price of $ 99 was a nice device) - but now it has disappeared.

Meanwhile, key people have left the team webOS. They do not see a future in which, and have not been given any reason to believe that HP is one.
course, there is a chance HP will stick to webOS. After all, not to drop the PC division. Why, Ms. Whitman?