A little birdie (The Verge) revealed earlier today that HP’s new CEO Meg Whitman had scheduled an all-hands meeting for the WebOS crew. The news sparked speculation that HP had perhaps found a suitor for the mobile platform, but those predictions turned up false. Instead, Whitman announced that no decision had yet been made and that WebOS remains in a holding pattern awaiting a final decision.

The expectation–given Whitman’s decree that a decision on the fate of WebOS would happen quickly, and swirling rumors of various potential deals to purchase the Palm mobile platform–was that HP would make some grand announcement regarding the sale of WebOS. Instead, the big news is that there is no big news.