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Is the Symbian Foundation DOA?

When Nokia announced that it was launching the Symbian Foundation to great fanfare, it had within its grasp that rarest of opportunities to move swiftly and become the dominant open source mobile platform. Alas, just one and a half years later, they have seemingly ceded that position to Android. Instead of recognizing the threat from Android and making strategic changes to counter, they instead criticized Google's closed-door development of Android before releasing a line of code themselves. When criticizing competitors, it helps to have your own house in order first.

?In October, the Symbian Foundation released the Symbian kernel sources to the world, and the rest of the world (read: developers) collectively responded, Great. Where's my Android phone? I've often lauded Google for its ability to fuse the marketing, PR and developer benefits of open source projects into one seemless operation. It would seem that Symbian could stand to learn a few things. The question is, is it too late?



OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

10 things Linux does better than OS X.....

How to take your apps to the cloud.....

Microsoft approaches an open source epiphany.....

Is Symbian any good?, and a follow-up.....

Testing open source enterprise data integration tools.....



OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Is Nokia's open source bet on Linux, Symbian, or both?.....

Can open source fix e-voting flaws?.....

The Netherlands Patent Office switches to open source.....

Roku is getting set to ship an open source version of its DVR software.....

Sun announces OpenSPARC Community Innovation award winners.....



OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Symbian growth takes a hit as the platform faces transition.....

Is Chrome a Trojan Horse for Google Gears?.....

Monty Widenius, one of MySQL's founders, is reportedly leaving Sun.....

A hands-on overview of the Access Linux platform.....

An open source rootkit kit.....



No Buy-In for Access Linux: A Bad Sign for Mobile Linux?

Are we about to see more competitors pulling out of the mobile Linux race? Recently, researchers at J. Gold and Associates produced a report predicting that Google's Linux-based Android platform would merge with the new and open source mobile platform from Symbian,ﾠ pitting two huge Goliaths (Google and Nokia) against any Davids who might dare to produce Linux-based handsets. While it's pure speculation that that might ever happen, a sign of weakening confidence on the mobile Linux front has appeared: The Access Linux Platform's initial and only smartphone project was recently rubbished. Orange is bailing on its plan to deliver a Samsung smartphone running Access Linux.


OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Microsoft's open source guru faces slings and arrows.....

A review of Sun's open source virtualization offering VirtualBox.....

Intuit joins the Linux revolution , opens a Linux Business Resource Center.....

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst: The clouds will all run Linux .....

ZDNet on why Android and Symbian won't merge.....



OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Intel is open sourcing its mobile Linux project, Moblin.....

The Symbian open source strategy was explained at OSCON.....

An open source home automation project.....

BricaBox, which offered a set of tools for quickly building social content apps until it recently shut down, is open sourcing its platform.....



LiMo Foundation Says It Welcomes the Symbian Foundation

As we posted yesterday, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT Docomo announced today that they will unite the Symbian OS, S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) into one open source mobile software platform. In conjunction, a number of members have announced the Symbian Foundation, to oversee the new platform. Now, the LiMo Foundation--which has a Linux-based mobile platform that will arrive on many phones later this year--has issued a statement welcoming the Symbian Foundation. Will we in fact see fierce competition between these two entities?


Symbian to Go Open Source, Nokia to Buy Out Symbian Shares

There's more momentum on the mobile open source front. Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT Docomo announced today that they will unite Symbian OS, S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) into one open mobile software platform. In addition, the Symbian Foundation is now formed, with many prominent early members, including AT&T, LG Electronics, Samsung, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone. Nokia will also buy out the remaining shares of Symbian Limited that it doesn't already own, for $410 million. Is Nokia only aiming to stop paying hefty Symbian license fees, or does this point to a promising new open source mobile platform? What does this mean for Linux phones?