Nokia completes Symbian acquisition

BY FARANAAZ PARKER , ITWEB JUNIOR COPY EDITOR

[ Johannesburg, 8 December 2008 ] - Nokia completes Symbian acquisition

Mobile phone maker Nokia today took a big step toward establishing the open source Symbian Foundation, a group that will enhance the Symbian OS to compete with Android and LiMo Foundation's mobile OS, says Beta News.

Having closed a deal to buy Symbian, Nokia called the completion of the acquisition a "fundamental step" in creating the Symbian Foundation, a multi-vendor group that will bolster the Symbian OS to take on emerging OSs as a mobile open source environment.

Beyond Nokia, the foundation has members that include wireless carriers AT&T, Vodafone, and Japanese-based NTT DoCoMo, in addition to phone and chipmakers such as Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, and Texas Instruments.

SpringSource reveals application server

SpringSource has unveiled another application server offering; this time it is an enterprise version of open source Apache Tomcat, known as the SpringSource tc Server, states Eweek.

SpringSource, the company behind the Spring Framework, revealed the new SpringSource tc Server at the company's annual developer conference, SpringOne Americas 2008.

“SpringSource tc Server is essentially Tomcat, except it's better,” said Rod Johnson, CEO of SpringSource, during his keynote address.

Zmanda offers backup, recovery

While data protection is a key factor in all sized businesses, the cost of data protection has become a challenge for businesses that are affected by economical crisis, says ZDnet.

In an effort to ease such a challenge, Zmanda's simple and affordable open source data protection solutions have come as a relief for many, says the company, an open source enterprise backup and recovery company.

The company's revenue and subscriber base quadrupled in 2008 and it says its backup solutions are still gaining momentum in industries such as Web 2.0, media, higher education, Internet services, defence, and government.