Some of the big news coming out of CES (Day 1) is the dual Palm announcements of a new operating system (WebOS) and new hardware (Palm Pre). So this now gives us another platform to consider as consumers, but what are the Enterprise implications of this announcement? Does it really change anything for us?
At this moment and with such a late release (Summer?) I would venture to think that we will not have to worry too much about the Palm Pre… but if you are excited about it please let us know why and we can discuss.
- Will our users be clamouring for this new device? Or will they have forgotten about it by the time it actually becomes available this Summer?
- Since the feature set is nothing earth shattering or new perhaps your users will not even be interested (plus it is only available on Sprint).
- Will you develop for for the WebOS?
- What about security?
- How will we deploy and manage 10,000 of these babies?
Information and commentary is spilling into the web rather quickly. However we have are yet to find anyone else speaking of the Pre’s expected enterprise capabilities (or readiness). We understand it is probably too soon for that. On second thought… is it too soon? However we expect to receive information from Palm and others directly or indirectly concerning expectations and plans on the Pre and Enterprise Mobility. As of right now we don’t recommend any of you enterprise folks to do anything about this (unless you can get a free Pre from Sprint ‘for testing purposes’).
In the meantime below are some links to keep you busy on the Pre and WebOS (which is a bigger announcement than the actual Pre)…
- Can Pre Save Palm From Being Put Out to Pasture? - I remain highly skeptical of Palm’s chance to succeed with this new effort. I may be the only one who isn’t buying it. (Placing GigaOm first since I agree with him the most… what’s all the hype about?)
- Holy “Nova” Batman! Palm Introduces the Pre – My usual routine includes reading whatever Philipe writes… and you should probably do the same. His blog was also the feature of our first ever Like Minded Blogs series.
- Palm Announces New Device and OS – The only question is – will Palm keep webOS as a part of its closed system strategy, or will it commercialize it and license it to other device vendors? My guess is that it will keep its new OS for itself.
- CES 2009: Palm Hits A Triple With The Pre – The Palm Pre and webOS are solid steps forward for Sprint, but they aren’t a home run. Yet.
- Previewing the Pre -This is clearly a last gasp effort from a company that popularized the PDA genre, but lost the plot in the last few years. It’s always interesting how a capable company, knowing that it is on its last legs always tends to post up something worthy of praise. Desperation ignites the best in minds.
- CES 2009: Palm announces the Palm Web OS and the Palm Pre device – Palm was in a perfect position to steal the show [...] I would have to say that Palm did just that.
- Is Palm webOS too little and too late? - …the timing here is late. Very late. Too late. Fact is the world has moved on. After years of waiting on Palm to create a true laptop-pocket bridge, we have moved on to the joy of Internet clients that fit in your hand. That’s the future.
- Palm WebOS -
- Palm Pre and Palm WebOS – Lots of pictures and brief commentary from someone present during the keynote.
- Palm WebOS Announced - With features such as support for multi-touch input and applications that can be built using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, this OS looks to merge what many do on the Web with what their mobile device is capable of doing.
- Palm WebOS is open source, could topple Android – Title says it all.
- Engadget: Palm Pre in-depth impressions, video, and huge hands-on gallery- Very in-depth personal look. What the title says.
- Live From Las Vegas (2) – From the Palm Blog… a series of 14 short blog posts doing a play-by-play of the announcement. I assume that they will post more information on their blog as it becomes available. Also if you are a developer you may be interested in heading over here to read about the Palm Mojo Application Framework (something which I would like more information on as well as their WebOS… hopefully some development experts will feed my something on that to post here).
- Further Thoughts on the Palm Pre
- Palm Unveils Its iPhone Rival: The Pre. Don’t Expect to Buy One Cheap.
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I love your question about the scalability of the device and platform in the enterprise. I can only assume that this was top of mind to Palm when they built this device. In terms of enterprise adoption, we’ll have to see, but you’ll notice on my post that the consumerization of enterprise mobility, plus the fact that the device can sync to Exchange both help Palm’s cause. Now it’s all about execution.