Symbian, the mobile open source platform of the future?
Nokia announced today its intention to buy Symbian shares it din't already own, and the start of a new Symbian Foundation with the help of other parties interested in Symbian (like AT&T, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, Vodafone and others).
Nokia will contribute the Symbian and S60 software to the Symbian Foundation. Sony Ericsson and Motorola also announced their intention to contribute technology from UIQ.
The eventual goal is to propose an open source platform for mobile computing licensed under the EPL.
Although it's only an announcement at this stage, the least we can say is that it's an interesting one. Let's see what materialises, and how this Symbian Foundation and the Open Handset Alliance will do in the future.
OEM agreement between Alfresco and Adobe
Alfresco published a press-release announcing their OEM agreement with Adobe. Adobe will embed Alfresco's ECM software in its own LifeCycle Enterprise Suite.
Firefox and Wine: two high profile releases
Firefox 3 has been release and is available for download, bringing not only big performance enhancements, but also UI changes as better fullscreen and the Awesome bar, and internal changes as well(new bookmarks system, malware protection, and more).
Wine, the Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix, has finally reached version 1.0, after 15 years of development. It eases porting windows applications to unix platforms, or helps running windows applications unchanged on unix. A list of applications running on wine is available on Wine's AppDB.
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