US companies welcome plans for the Symbian Foundation
Further endorsements from leading global services and software companies
At the Symbian Partner Event, the initial board members of the Symbian Foundation welcomed the latest supporters of the Symbian Foundation initiative. More than 500 delegates are in San Francisco to learn more about the future of Symbian OS and its associated ecosystem, including plans to establish the Symbian Foundation.
"Global support for the planned foundation continues to grow," said Teppo Hemia, VP of Mobile Chipset Platforms Business Unit at ST-NXP Wireless, on behalf of the initial board members. "Today’s announcement brings to 64 the number of organizations that have endorsed our plans and share our vision of building the most proven, open and complete platform for mobile innovation."
"We are delighted with the response from the Silicon Valley community, as well as from developers around the world, to the plans for the foundation to build on the leading open mobile platform," said Lee Williams, nominated Executive Director of the Symbian Foundation, a keynote speaker at the Symbian Partner Event. "Companies in Silicon Valley are among the most innovative in the world and it is good to see such strong support from the US. Our plans to make the platform available in the first half of 2009 and to have distributions available under the Eclipse Public License by June 2010 are clearly enhancing its appeal to developers, solutions providers and network operators. We already have strong US based representation with AT&T and Texas Instruments as initial board members. Today AOL, Intrinsyc, and Xenient join the previously announced US based supporters including ARM, Broadcom, EA Mobile, Freescale, Marvell, Red Bend Software, TapRoot Systems, T-Mobile US and Visa."
Today’s announcement includes support for the Symbian Foundation plans from six more companies; AOL, Cell Telecom, Intrinsyc, ISB Corporation, Trusted Logic and Xenient have added their endorsements to the 58 other companies already announced.
"AOL welcomes plans for the formation of the Symbian Foundation and the open source release of its platform," said Jai Jaisimha, Vice President of AOL Mobile. "As a leader in the online media and advertising space, AOL is a strong proponent of the role of open APIs and open source technologies as a key enabler for the emerging open mobile ecosystem. AOL believes that open source initiatives such as the Symbian Foundation and AOL’s Open Mobile Platform will be critical to the creation of a vibrant ecosystem in the mobile space. We look forward to working with the developer community and the Symbian Foundation to co-create the next generation of mobile content and application experiences for the benefit of consumers."
"Cell Telecom, a UK based subsidiary of Fujitsu Services, applauds plans for the formation of the Symbian Foundation. This bold evolutionary step will unify the platform and encourage accelerated innovation and increased customer satisfaction within the mobile industry," said Stefan Fager, Managing Director of Cell Telecom. "This standardisation of the Symbian Foundation platform will help by reducing time to market, widening the marketplace for applications and reducing testing costs. We expect to be an active member of the foundation, bringing our expertise in applications development, tools development and testing in this environment."
"Intrinsyc is excited to welcome and support plans for the Symbian Foundation – an organization we expect to grow the ecosystem around the foundation's platform and extend the most popular advanced phone OS across a wider range of devices," said Andrew Hurdle, VP of Strategy, Intrinsyc. "We are the only Symbian Competence Centre based in North America. As a trusted professional services and software company, Intrinsyc intends to leverage our strong Symbian OS development expertise to support the foundation and all its members in creating the next generation of mobile devices built on the foundation's platform, driving exciting new user experiences."
"ISB Corporation welcomes plans to establish the Symbian Foundation and looks forward to the software platform being available in open source," said Itsuo Wakao, President, ISB. "ISB has engaged in Symbian OS terminal development for ten years and provided application, middleware and driver development, testing solutions, development support tools, training services and technical publications mainly for the Japanese market. We expect to contribute to the new unified Symbian Foundation platform unified by joining the foundation and leveraging our expertise in development and testing, for the benefit of our customers and other members."
"Trusted Logic welcomes plans to create the Symbian Foundation and to establish an open source platform. We believe this is a key milestone in expanding mobile services offerings," said Philippe Dubois, Director BU Professional & Consumer Devices at Trusted Logic. "Since its creation, Trusted Logic has focused on providing security components and expertise for open OS architectures, enabling deployment of sensitive services. Trusted Logic will work with Symbian Foundation members to enable device manufacturers to increase security levels with lower cost and faster time to market."
"Xenient is excited about plans to create the Symbian Foundation," said Xenient co-Founder and CEO Regan Coleman. "Xenient has been focusing on Symbian OS in the North American market for several years and anticipates increasing demand for training and consulting in the US, Canada, and Latin America, as developers here recognize the business opportunity that the Symbian Foundation platform will offer."
Since plans for the Symbian Foundation were announced, hundreds of organizations have registered their interest in joining the foundation via the website at www.symbianfoundation.org.
As previously announced, the plans for the establishment of the Symbian Foundation and royalty-free licensing of foundation software are:
1.The acquisition of Symbian Limited by Nokia, completed as planned in fourth quarter, 2008.
2.oftware assets are contributed to the foundation, including Symbian OS™ and S60 by Nokia, UIQ technology by Motorola and Sony Ericsson and MOAP(S) by NTT DOCOMO and Fujitsu.
3.This contributed software will be available under a royalty-free license to foundation members from the first day of Symbian Foundation operations, expected during first half, 2009.
4.The foundation will work to unify the platform, with the first unified foundation release expected in 2009.
5.The foundation will work to make the platform available in open source by June 2010 (two years from the Symbian Foundation announcement).
At the Symbian Partner Event, the initial board members of the Symbian Foundation welcomed the latest supporters of the Symbian Foundation initiative. More than 500 delegates are in San Francisco to learn more about the future of Symbian OS and its associated ecosystem, including plans to establish the Symbian Foundation.
"Global support for the planned foundation continues to grow," said Teppo Hemia, VP of Mobile Chipset Platforms Business Unit at ST-NXP Wireless, on behalf of the initial board members. "Today’s announcement brings to 64 the number of organizations that have endorsed our plans and share our vision of building the most proven, open and complete platform for mobile innovation."
"We are delighted with the response from the Silicon Valley community, as well as from developers around the world, to the plans for the foundation to build on the leading open mobile platform," said Lee Williams, nominated Executive Director of the Symbian Foundation, a keynote speaker at the Symbian Partner Event. "Companies in Silicon Valley are among the most innovative in the world and it is good to see such strong support from the US. Our plans to make the platform available in the first half of 2009 and to have distributions available under the Eclipse Public License by June 2010 are clearly enhancing its appeal to developers, solutions providers and network operators. We already have strong US based representation with AT&T and Texas Instruments as initial board members. Today AOL, Intrinsyc, and Xenient join the previously announced US based supporters including ARM, Broadcom, EA Mobile, Freescale, Marvell, Red Bend Software, TapRoot Systems, T-Mobile US and Visa."
Today’s announcement includes support for the Symbian Foundation plans from six more companies; AOL, Cell Telecom, Intrinsyc, ISB Corporation, Trusted Logic and Xenient have added their endorsements to the 58 other companies already announced.
"AOL welcomes plans for the formation of the Symbian Foundation and the open source release of its platform," said Jai Jaisimha, Vice President of AOL Mobile. "As a leader in the online media and advertising space, AOL is a strong proponent of the role of open APIs and open source technologies as a key enabler for the emerging open mobile ecosystem. AOL believes that open source initiatives such as the Symbian Foundation and AOL’s Open Mobile Platform will be critical to the creation of a vibrant ecosystem in the mobile space. We look forward to working with the developer community and the Symbian Foundation to co-create the next generation of mobile content and application experiences for the benefit of consumers."
"Cell Telecom, a UK based subsidiary of Fujitsu Services, applauds plans for the formation of the Symbian Foundation. This bold evolutionary step will unify the platform and encourage accelerated innovation and increased customer satisfaction within the mobile industry," said Stefan Fager, Managing Director of Cell Telecom. "This standardisation of the Symbian Foundation platform will help by reducing time to market, widening the marketplace for applications and reducing testing costs. We expect to be an active member of the foundation, bringing our expertise in applications development, tools development and testing in this environment."
"Intrinsyc is excited to welcome and support plans for the Symbian Foundation – an organization we expect to grow the ecosystem around the foundation's platform and extend the most popular advanced phone OS across a wider range of devices," said Andrew Hurdle, VP of Strategy, Intrinsyc. "We are the only Symbian Competence Centre based in North America. As a trusted professional services and software company, Intrinsyc intends to leverage our strong Symbian OS development expertise to support the foundation and all its members in creating the next generation of mobile devices built on the foundation's platform, driving exciting new user experiences."
"ISB Corporation welcomes plans to establish the Symbian Foundation and looks forward to the software platform being available in open source," said Itsuo Wakao, President, ISB. "ISB has engaged in Symbian OS terminal development for ten years and provided application, middleware and driver development, testing solutions, development support tools, training services and technical publications mainly for the Japanese market. We expect to contribute to the new unified Symbian Foundation platform unified by joining the foundation and leveraging our expertise in development and testing, for the benefit of our customers and other members."
"Trusted Logic welcomes plans to create the Symbian Foundation and to establish an open source platform. We believe this is a key milestone in expanding mobile services offerings," said Philippe Dubois, Director BU Professional & Consumer Devices at Trusted Logic. "Since its creation, Trusted Logic has focused on providing security components and expertise for open OS architectures, enabling deployment of sensitive services. Trusted Logic will work with Symbian Foundation members to enable device manufacturers to increase security levels with lower cost and faster time to market."
"Xenient is excited about plans to create the Symbian Foundation," said Xenient co-Founder and CEO Regan Coleman. "Xenient has been focusing on Symbian OS in the North American market for several years and anticipates increasing demand for training and consulting in the US, Canada, and Latin America, as developers here recognize the business opportunity that the Symbian Foundation platform will offer."
Since plans for the Symbian Foundation were announced, hundreds of organizations have registered their interest in joining the foundation via the website at www.symbianfoundation.org.
As previously announced, the plans for the establishment of the Symbian Foundation and royalty-free licensing of foundation software are:
1.The acquisition of Symbian Limited by Nokia, completed as planned in fourth quarter, 2008.
2.oftware assets are contributed to the foundation, including Symbian OS™ and S60 by Nokia, UIQ technology by Motorola and Sony Ericsson and MOAP(S) by NTT DOCOMO and Fujitsu.
3.This contributed software will be available under a royalty-free license to foundation members from the first day of Symbian Foundation operations, expected during first half, 2009.
4.The foundation will work to unify the platform, with the first unified foundation release expected in 2009.
5.The foundation will work to make the platform available in open source by June 2010 (two years from the Symbian Foundation announcement).
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