Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider ActiveState becomes the official PaaS for the entire HP cloud business. It won this deal through the strength of Stackato, its PaaS that uses Cloud Foundry to offer a distributed developer platform.
While HP doesn’t seem to know what to do with webOS, which it purchased from Palm and subsequently killed, members of a group called Phoenix International Communications seems to have a plan.
HP is looking to hire 50+ developers for the webOS platform, marking a new turn for the company’s troubled mobile market play.
The Open webOS project has reached an important milestone, it is now out of beta and has released its first version.
HP has reached a major milestone in its efforts to open source webOS. They have released a beta of webOS.
It is interesting to see how quickly communities form around open source projects, and the latest is webOS. As promised by HP a while back, webOS is being open sourced.
