The new CEO of HP has given a sit down interview with CRN that covers quite a bit of ground. The subject of webOS came up and Whitman says HP will be behind the OS in a "big way." Even though HP decided to open source webOS, it looks like the company will be making hardware that uses webOS in the future.

We're going to build a new business together. We're going to build another operating system that has huge advantages, in my view, over iOS, which is a closed system, [and] Android, which is incredibly fragmented and may ultimately be more closed with [Google's] acquisition of Motorola Mobility.

We're great partners with Microsoft and Intel. But the fact is, the world can probably use one more operating system. So we're going to support it in a very big way and I'm excited about it. You can give us a grade in about a year, and I think the proof will be in the pudding in about two or three.

Whitman says in the video that HP will release a Windows 8 tablet, but rumor has it that HP will also likely develop another webOS tablet at some point.

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