April 28, 2010
HP buys Palm
Hewlett Packard plans to buy Palm for (Dr. Evil voice) one BILLION dollars….. in cash. I guess by laying off all those HP workers, closing all those offices, and offshoring so much work to India and China has enabled the “deep pockets” that HP sports. Well, I guess this gives HP more of an “in” in the mobile phone market, but I still say Android is where it’s at these days. I have no experience with the Web OS that runs some Palm devices, and I know that some swear by it…. I guess we’ll see. It’s nice to see Palm get saved, but as with any acquisition all of those peripheral accounting, HR, IT and other jobs are gone….
