HP has confirmed that it has lost some "key members" of the team overseeing Enyo, a framework for developing HTML5 applications that grew up alongside the company's ill-fated webOS mobile operating system. But it also says that a majority of the Enyo engineering and leadership team remains in place, contradicting a story that was splashed across the net on Friday.
On Friday morning, under the headline "Exclusive: HP's core webOS Enyo team is going to Google," The Verge reported that "the HP team responsible for Enyo... will be leaving the company and starting at Google shortly." But the site soon updated its own story to say that "sources close to HP" said that the entire Enyo team would not be leaving HP after all.
HP later responded with a blog post saying that a majority of the Enyo team would remain in place. "We want to reassure you that we’re thrilled with the traction Enyo has gained to date and are redoubling our efforts to continue development, working closely with the community," the post read.
It's also worth pointing out that Enyo is not part of webOS. The two are sisters projects, but Enyo can be used without webOS, and webOS can be used without Enyo. Enyo is merely an open source framework for developing both mobile and web applications using the JavaScript fledging HTML5 standard.
