Between the failure of Palm’s webOS platform after HP took over and that company’s ongoing financial headaches, the news that most of the remaining development team for the open-source Enyo framework is heading for the exits should be little surprise.
The Verge is reporting that Google has snapped up a large portion of HP’s Enyo development team, the folks responsible for keeping an open-source version of the HTML5-based webOS platform alive and well.
While it’s unknown what project leader Matt McNulty and his merry band of webOS misfits will be doing at Google, they’ve actually got plenty to choose from, given the search giant controls both Android as well as the stagnating Chrome OS, which isn’t so far removed from Enyo in the first place.
So what happens now with HP’s open-source plans for webOS? The official statement from the company seems to indicate business as usual.
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