Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Nokia buys Symbian

The mobile open-source world suddenly has a very major new player, after it emerged on Tuesday that the Symbian, Series 60, UIQ and MOAP platforms are to be merged into an open-sourced platform to rival Google’s much-feted Android Open Handset Alliance project.

Nokia is to buy out the remaining shares in Symbian that it does not already own for $410 million, and it will then contribute Symbian and its own Series 60 (S60) platform to a new not-for-profit organization called the Symbian Foundation. The major immediate difference for companies that deal with Symbian will be that they no longer have to pay a license fee to the company for using the platform.

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