Nokia buys rest of Symbian will make code open source: related news

Open Source Census Gaining Traction Globally as Enterprises Gain Visibility Into Their Own Open Source Usage

BROOMFIELD, CO -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 06/16/08 -- The Open Source Census, a global, collaborative project to collect and share quantitative data on the use of open source software, today announced that after its first two months, more than 220,000 open source package/project installations have been discovered. Additionally several organizations have joined The Open Source Census at various levels, including: ActiveState, EnterpriseDB, Microsoft, Oregon State University's Open Source Lab, and OSAlt.com (Open Source as Alternative).

Nokia to Acquire and Open Source Symbian

zyzko writes "Nokia has placed an offer on Symbian stock — it currently owns a 48% share and intends to buy the other shareholders out, 91% of the stockholders have already agreed. The press has already labeled this as an countermeasure to fight Android. Nokia has also created Symbian foundation — it might mean more open Symbian." Symbian is "currently the world's dominant smartphone operating system (206 million phones shipped, 18.5 million in Q1 2008)," writes reader thaig, who points out coverage in the Economic Times. If this deal goes through as expected, the Foundation says that selected components of the Symbian operating system would be made available as open source at launch under the Eclipse Public License (EPL) 1.0 , with the rest of the platform following over the next two years.

Nokia buys rest of Symbian, will make code open source

Nokia today announced it plans to acquire all of Symbian, which develops an operating system for mobile phones. The Finnish phone giant currently owns about 48% and will pay €264 million ($542 million) for the rest.

Nokia buys rest of Symbian, will make code open source

Nokia on Tuesday announced it plans to acquire all of Symbian, which develops an operating system for mobile phones. The Finnish phone giant currently owns about 48 percent and will pay €264 million (US$410 million) for the rest.

Nokia buys rest of Symbian, will make code open source

Nokia on Tuesday announced it plans to acquire all of Symbian, which develops an operating system for mobile phones. The Finnish phone giant currently owns about 48 per cent and will pay €264 million ($410 million) for the rest.

Nokia Buys Rest of Symbian, Will Make Code Open Source

Nokia on Tuesday announced it plans to acquire all of Symbian, which develops an operating system for mobile phones. The Finnish phone giant currently owns about 48 percent and will pay ¬264 million (US$410 million) for the rest.

Nokia Buys Rest of Symbian, Will Make Code Open Source

Nokia on Tuesday announced it plans to acquire all of Symbian, which develops an operating system for mobile phones. The Finnish phone giant currently owns about 48 per cent and will pay €264 million (US$410 million) for the rest.

Nokia buys rest of Symbian, will make code open source

Nokia Corp. on Tuesday announced it plans to acquire all of Symbian Software Ltd., which develops an operating system for mobile phones. The Finnish phone giant currently owns about 48% and will pay €264 million ($410 million U.S.) for the rest.

Is Open Source Good for the Java Developer?

Commercial open source software has arrived. There have been commercial sponsors of open source projects for a long time, but the recent spate of high-price (for open source, at least) acquisitions of companies with open source products at the core of their business has made a splash in the technology industry. In addition, Sun’s convulsions into the open source world have left the Java landscape decisively in open source territory.

Symbian Foundation Formed, Symbian OS, S60, and UIQ Going Open Source

Earlier today Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, and NTT DoCoMo announced that they are planning to turn the Symbian smartphone OS and its user interfaces into one royalty-free and, eventually, open source platform. In order to do that, Nokia has announced that it will be purchasing the remaining shares of Symbian that it does not already own from the other Symbian partners and will contribute the Symbian operating system, as well as its S60 user interface, to a new non-profit organization called the Symbian Foundation. Sony Ericsson and Motorola will, in turn, donate their UIQ assets while Japan's NTT DoCoMo will hand over its own MOAP(S) platform to the foundation.

Is Mule Really Open Source?

"Most Open Source Projects (Not the namesake open source projects) are released under an OSI approved license. The open source definition of OSI states that 'Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code. The distribution terms of open-source software must comply with the following criteria'. It goes on to describe 10 items under this. Item #6 states that 'The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.'

Actuate Initiates Open Source Advisory Board

Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTU), the leader in delivering Rich Internet Applications Without Limits™, today announced the formation of an Open Source Advisory Board. Open Source technology industry luminaries Julie Hanna Farris, a seasoned open source technology entrepreneur and Andrew Aitken, CEO of the Olliance Group, the leading open source management consultancy, are founding members of the board. The board’s mission is to reinforce and extend the leadership and innovation of Actuate’s open source business model, which combines the key elements of open source with the best of enterprise software and to further Actuate’s community contributions and activities.

Nokia: Open Source Developers Should Play By Our Rules

"Nokia has been involved with open source for several years. Notably, it used Linux and several open source code libraries as the foundation of Maemo, the operating system for its line of Internet tablet devices. To be fair, Nokia has also contributed to a number of open source projects in return. But if Jaaski thinks that gives Nokia a right to dictate terms--sorry, to 'educate developers'--I think he's in for a rude awakening.

Nokia buys rest of Symbian, will make code open source

Nokia's new approach could greatly benefit the Symbian platform by making it more stable and attractive to operators, developers, and consumers

Nokia to change the nature of open source with Symbian

Nokia's announcement that it intends to acquire Symbian comes as little surprise to the industry, though the OEM's plan to take Symbian and the S60 platform into the open-source world was a striking revelation. It is a radical shift in Nokia's terminal-software strategy and could completely change the open-source game in the mobile handset market.

How Nokia's Symbian Move Helps Google

While phones running Google's Android mobile platform will compete for sales against Nokia's smartphones running Symbian, the fact that Nokia plans to take Symbian open source could actually benefit both companies. By increasing the adoption of open source, the Nokia move further opens up the market for all open source platforms.

How Nokia's Symbian Move Helps Google

While phones running Google's Android mobile platform will compete for sales against Nokia's smartphones running Symbian, the fact that Nokia plans to take Symbian open source could actually benefit both companies. By increasing the adoption of open source, the Nokia move further opens up the market for all open source platforms.

How Nokia's Symbian Move Helps Google

While phones running Google's Android mobile platform will compete for sales against Nokia's smartphones running Symbian, the fact that Nokia plans to take Symbian open source could actually benefit both companies. By increasing the adoption of open source, the Nokia move further opens up the market for all open source platforms.

Symbian shifts mobile world to open source

Symbian's decision to make its source code freely available tips the scales in favor of open-source software in smartphones and could make it harder for Microsoft, and even other open-source platforms like Google's Android and Linux, to compete.

Symbian Shifts Mobile World to Open Source

Symbian's decision to make its source code freely available tips the scales in favor of open-source software in smartphones and could make it harder for Microsoft, and even other open-source platforms like Google's Android and Linux, to compete.

Symbian shifts mobile world to open source

Symbian's decision to make its source code freely available tips the scales in favor of open-source software in smartphones and could make it harder for Microsoft, and even other open-source platforms like Google's Android and Linux, to compete.

Rising Enterprise Adoption of Open Source Software is Putting Businesses At Greater...

Rising Enterprise Adoption of Open Source Software is Putting Businesses At Greater Risk New data from Fortify Software finds that widely-used open source software packages do not employ best practices for securing code SAN MATEO, Calif., July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Fortify Software, Inc., the market leader in enterprise application security solutions for business software assurance, released today its Open Source Security Study which reveals that the most widely-used open source software packages for the enterprise are exposing users to significant and unnecessary business risk. The study validates that Open Source Software (OSS) development communities have yet to adopt a secure development process and often leave dangerous vulnerabilities unaddressed.

Entries Invited for the 2009 Open Source Business Award

NUREMBERG, Germany, July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Headquartered in Nuremberg, Open Source Business Foundation e.V. (http://www.osbf.de), the European network of the open source sector, is now inviting entries for the 2009 Open Source Business Award. The OSBA is the largest European business plan competition, and is open to all companies, consortia, public authorities and private individuals concerned with innovative solutions that are based on open source software. Participants have until November 30, 2008 to submit their business plans and concepts to win prize money totaling EUR 78,000, coaching offerings by established experts and venture capital financing. The awards ceremony will be held on January 28, 2009, during the "Open Source Meets Business" congress, which publishers Heise Verlag are staging in cooperation with OSBF in Nuremberg.

Ingres Explores the Future of Open Source at OSCON 2008

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — July 15, 2008 — Ingres Corporation, a provider of open source database management software and support services, announces that Bill Maimone, senior vice president of worldwide engineering, will discuss what lies ahead for open source database management systems at this year's Open Source Conference (OSCON) in Portland, Oregon. OSCON 2008 brings together over 2,500 open source developers, hackers, experts, IT managers, and users to champion the cause of open principles and open source adoption across the computing industry. OSCON will take place July 21 - 25 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon.

Ingres Explores the Future of Open Source at OSCON 2008

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 15, 2008--Ingres Corporation, a leading provider of open source database management software and support services, announced today that Bill Maimone, senior vice president of worldwide engineering, will discuss what lies ahead for open source database management systems at this year’s Open Source Conference (OSCON) in Portland, Oregon. OSCON 2008 brings together over 2,500 open source developers, hackers, experts, IT managers, and users to champion the cause of open principles and open source adoption across the computing industry. OSCON will take place July 21 - 25 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon.

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