"We should announce our decision in the next two weeks," HP CEO Meg Whitman told French newspaper Le Figaro in an interview published today. "This is not an easy decision, because we have a team of 600 people which is in limbo."
Although Whitman didn't indicate whether she's leaning either way in her decision, she did say that HP needs "to have another operating system," seemingly indicating that WebOS could stage a comeback.
HP announced in August that it was making sweeping changes to its business, including considering spinning off its PC business and discontinuing its mobile hardware, like its TouchPad tablet. The move effectively put WebOS in a holding pattern until its fate could be determined.
However, those decisions were made under former HP CEO Leo Apotheker. In September, he was replaced with Whitman. And since she took over, Whitman has followed a much different strategy than Apotheker by deciding to keep the PC business in-house and embracing HP's hardware roots.
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