Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) chief strategy and technology officer Shane Robison said the company plans to integrate a significant number of products into Palm's webOS smartphone platform and is relying on integration possibilities to attract mobile developers to webOS. Moreover, the company plans to market tablets for the enterprise segment powered by Microsoft's Windows software, but Google's Android OS is not on the company's roadmap.  

HP purchased Palm for $1.2 billion in April, and it has become clear over the past few months that the webOS will be in more than just smartphones and tablets.  "This isn't strictly focused on the tablet," Robison told Reuters. "We're going to have printers, even some printers that have detachable, smaller slate devices on them. And when you think about the number of printers we ship, 50 million-plus a year, that gets the app developers' attention."

Persuading developers to write webOS applications is a critical component of HP's future strategy, Robison said. "We need a rich catalog of apps and we're working hard on that," he said. Palm plans to issue webOS version 2.0 sometime in 2010.

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