Rubinstein opens the door to the authorization of WebOS

HP is open to the licence of the WebOS operating system, but only in very select businesses, an Executive said Wednesday.

"HP is more willing to associate with one or two companies," said Jon Rubinstein, who heads the Palm HP unit. "but at the same time, HP is not interested in the General License business." Referred to Rubinstein a Conference of Qualcomm, which was broadcast on the Web.

A "special" society would be that which brings value to WebOS, not one who has already made with a variety of operating systems, phones, he said. "But if someone wants to put a real focus on contributing and the construction of the ecosystem of WebOS, this would be something that we are concerned", he said.

Palm has authorized its software in the past, but with the launch of the new software, WebOS, the company initially does not a licensing program. However, on the sale of products of WebOS is found to be low, Rubinstein, who was then before HP bought Palm, changed course and said that it was open to licensing.

Despite the part of the small market of WebOS, Rubinstein believes that it has a step ahead of competitors. "We are well placed, HP is, for this market is going to go," he said. People will want various devices that connect and interact with, he said. With WebOS running on phones, tablets and PCs, people will be able to connect to these devices.

The HP's TouchPad, which extends from WebOS, should go on sale this month. Users may receive a Palm phone the pad, and the phone will automatically display the Web page located on the tablet screen.

HP also has plans to bring WebOS to computers, said. WebOS does not replace Windows but will run on it, he said. That will allow users to keep the experience traditional Windows they are accustomed, but get "enhanced capabilities" by adding WebOS on it, he said.

Competition between the OSes mobile will be a battle in the long term, said Rubinstein. "There is place to great innovation and capacity that will come over the next 10 years." I consider this as who will win from this in the next quarter, "he says.

Nancy Gohring covers mobile phones and cloud computing for the IDG News Service. Follow Nancy on Twitter at idgnancy @. Nancy e-mail address is Nancy_Gohring@idg.com