Many industry analysts have been quick to jump on the HP criticism bandwagon after CEO Leo Apotheker revealed the company's keen focus on mobile computing platform webOS and the cloud during an HP event this week. The market even responded unfavorably with HP stock prices falling soon after the event. Let's face it, we've come to know HP as a hardware company, and its move into mobile OSes and cloud services is making everyone a bit jumpy.
That criticism may be unfounded, however. What many see as HP just throwing a hat into the ring to compete with Apple and Google may actually be a great strategy to provide businesses with sensible and secure options that fuse mobile and cloud computing into offerings that will sit better with CIOs and IT decision makers. As popular as Android and Apple devices are, there are still legitimate concerns in corporate IT about introducing these devices onto a business network; the same can be said about cloud computing.
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