webOS is now the center of HP connectivy universe, an integrated ecosystem of devices and services linked together using webOS. This is HP new software strategy to start to come real, when HP launches the Veer this Spring and the TouchPad and Pre3 in June and continue allowing more hardware devices to play with in the webOS ecosystem.
HP have to communicate the value of the unique, abilities and strength of webOS to partners, investors and customers.
HP is expected to offer a concrete insight into how it will help partners from a business standpoint, at the HP´s Americas Partner Conference starting today Monday March 28 to March 30.
Many HP partners are still on the sidelines of mobility and the practices of many of those that have are still in a fledgling state.
The idea that work requires a full notebook PC is changing, so partners in the PC space need to make tablets at least part of their business, or they risk getting left behind, said Bob Venero, president and CEO of Future Tech Enterprise, a Holbrook, N.Y based HP partner.
HP CEO Leo Apotheker said:
“An ecosystem is not just consumer driven or fun apss, an ecosystem can also be enterprise or business apps”. “I would be delighted to see channel partners of HP bring some of their knowledge and create vertical mobile apps for webOS”
Stephen De Witt, senior VP of HP´s Americas Solution Partners Organization, says: “ the journey of webOS will be an ongoing one that will span the next several years. As webOS grows and matures, HP will rely heavily on a development community: one that include partners, to extend the value proposition of webOS.”
Channel partners are already considering the business model shift that cloud computing necessitates. WebOS will also require adjustment and investment on the part of partners, but HP aware that the radical shift mobility represents might not be for everyone.
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