Symbian to marry Google's Android
Bangalore: Nokia's open source mobile platform Symbian is just getting bigger. It will merge with Android, Google's mobile device platform, which is also based on open source, to facilitate a single but larger open source operating system.
Analysts at J. Gold Associates say, "The merger will take place sometime in the near future, say three to six months."
The move is considered unexpected as Android was about to launch its devices in late 2008, and Nokia announced in June that it would be moving Symbian towards open source, giving no clue of the two companies having any formal relationship that would come close to such a collaboration.
"But this is happening," says J. Gold, because "A combination of the Android and Symbian efforts would be good for the industry, good for Google and good for Symbian." And a handful of similar mergers are in the offing that includes Linksys and Belkin, Red Hat and Ubuntu, and Engadget and Gizmodo.
In June Nokia bought Symbian, paving the way for an open-source Symbian environment. But since Symbian's code was destined to be accessed only by the Symbian Foundation, the software maker had announced that it was open to collaborate with Google and its Linux-based Android mobile operating system.
Write a comment now!
siliconindia news bureau
Reader’s comments
Comment 1: Android and Symbian won’t merge.
Read this :)
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2717
Posted by : Kannan - Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Read this :)
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2717
Posted by : Kannan - Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Comment 2: When you cant face it, better go along with it. This is what Symbian has done to be on the safer side
Posted by : Narasimha Reddy - Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Posted by : Narasimha Reddy - Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Today’s top news
Indian origin woman among Next Gen billionaires
Nishita Shah, 28, an Indian origin businesswoman from Thailand, golfer Tiger Woods and Elon Musk, co-founder of online payment processor PayPal figure on Forbes' list of ...
Pay package offered by global companies for non-IITians surpasses the salary of those who are coming from premier IITs.
E-waste may be a global phenomenon, but as far as India is concerned, its consequences is much more.
The corporate world being the one of the worse hit spheres of economic slowdown, most of the industries now resort to a tightened HR process reveals Hewitt Associates stu...
TiE entrepreneurial Summit 2008 (TES 2008), the largest entrepreneurial event in Asia, would be held in Bangalore from December 16 to 18.
Mohan Uttarwar co-founded BioImagene raises $26 Mn
BioImagene, a provider of digital pathology solutions for cancer diagnosis and preclinical research, has announced the closing of a $26 million series D financing round.
As excitement heightens for the launch of Apple's iPhone in India Friday, two Indian techies from the U.S. have pitched in to offer a free download of their mobile applic...
Reliance Communication (RCom) is set to launch its proposed GSM cellular network by the year-end, with five GSM operators agreeing to interconnect their networks with RCo...
IIMs unaffected in pre-placement offers
While most of the prominent B-schools in India are anticipating a low number of job offers this academic year, IIMs expect a 25 percent to 50 percent increase in pre-plac...
'Job opportunities on upswing in infrastructure sector'
The infrastructure sector has contributed a significant share of 12 percent to the total job growth posted in the country in the first quarter of current fiscal, accordin...

