HP’s recent decision to launch WebOS Operating System as an open-source software has not been much welcomed in the world of wireless data service industry. In fact it has been associated with a failure right from its inception as Hewlette Packard is least interested in experimenting in the sphere it has little knowledge on. The Palm  Web OS acquisition by HP proved an expensive and a short lived affair. Like other open source systems like Symbian, Sun Microsystem's OpenOffice, the codes were still messy and controlling it was complicated. Even Oracle backed out of the entire LibreOffice affair and handed it over to Apache Software Project. Wireless Data Industry observers are even skeptical of Sun's Java and solaris open source projects. Even Mozzila Firefox struggled for seven years.

However a free product still hyas a few takers that steal a little from the competition. For instance yahoo supported Hadoop project is definitely in competition with Google’s in house  equivalent MapReduce. Even Microsoft has adopted Hadoop. The key to relevance of this discussion is that that in today,s world use of mobile phones is no more restricted to voice as data has assumed an upperhand over it.