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Originally Posted by ptyork
I agree, in the short term at least. But WP7 is NOT an enterprise solution. It is further away even than webOS. I think that this will be one of the first thing HP addresses. What is really required? Encryption of the file system (easy since there's very little in the way of a true file system). Remote provisioning and wipe (an effort, but not major). Lockdown/removal of camera--easily accomplished. EAS support (it's in there). Control over app installation and custom app distribution (again, pretty much in there). I'm sure there are some things I'm missing. And of course there's all kinds of testing and certification needed if they want to get into the government.
But I don't think we're talking years. Maybe 6-12 months for a good enterprise solution and maybe an additional year to get into the government.
Personally, I think this is one of the main reasons that HP bought webOS--so that they could adapt webOS for distribution to their corporate / government customers.
MY worry actually is that they'll focus too much on these features and neglect some of the more consumer-focused R&D.
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I hope you're right about the 6-12 months and I think you've covered most of what they'd need to do to make webOS entrprise-ready. There are a few other minor things, like improvements to the calendar and task handling, but those could be easily done.
I do agree that we're likely to see webOS in many more markets and configurations and on more devices than we've seen, thanks to this deal.
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