All-Hands Meeting at Palm Today to Discuss HP Merger

bluenote in the PreCentral forum posted that Palm is holding an all-hands meeting today to discuss the HP-Palm merger.  It sounds like work has been ongoing to make sure that the merger goes smoothly and that the oft-rumored HP webOS products are readied quickly.  The full text of the e-mail announcement about the meeting is below.

From May 21st SEC filing:
The following is an email sent by Palm Chairman and CEO Jon Rubinstein to Palm employees on May 20, 2010:

Employee Email

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Team,

It’s hard to believe that three weeks have already passed since we announced HP’s plans to acquire Palm. We are busily working with HP to close the transaction, and everything is on track. The Legal, Finance and Business Development teams have done yeoman’s work to keep things moving at a very fast pace.

Before talking more about the HP integration, I’d like to congratulate everyone on getting Palm Pre Plus up and running on AT&T. Within a year of launching the Palm Pre, we are available on all three major U.S. carriers. In addition, we are seeing improvements in sales across the carriers as a result of everyone’s efforts to increase sell-through.

An integration planning process is in place with participation from representatives across multiple groups from HP and Palm, led by Dave Vadasz and his counterpart at HP. This process includes several teams, identified by function or topic. The list of teams and their Palm leaders can be found on Palm Central here http://central/news/Pages/merger.aspx. Todd Bradley and I lead the steering committee.

Each of these people sit in regularly scheduled meetings with their HP counterparts to plan for a smooth and effective transition. There are weekly all-hands integration meetings with the entire integration team from Palm and HP, and regular discussions between the working groups. Some of you may have been pulled in to help one of the working groups, and we appreciate your involvement. I realize that we have not been able to answer all of your questions, and that is hard. We will continue to add information to Palm Central as soon as we can share it.

The most important thing, though, is that I’m very excited about our future. We’ve got the talent and the technology to do amazing things. Some of you may have seen the news from HP’s earnings call the other day, where they talked about plans to incorporate webOS into netbooks, slates and printers. This news lit up the technology community with the expansive possibilities of webOS.

Let’s talk more next Wednesday, May 26 at an all-hands meeting (see meeting invite for more details). Some HP guests will join us as well.

Go Palm and HP!!

jon

Thanks to Jonathan Ezor for the tip.