The non-profit fund of software development Symbian Foundation has officially announced the closure of all its sites and about suspending most part of its operational activity connected with the Symbian mobile operation system development
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According to the official sources, Symbian web sites will be closed at midnight on December 17. “We are working hard to make most of our content available via various web services (source codes, developers’ sets, Wiki, error databases, documentation and the project Symbian Ideas)”, said the statement of the Fund. The Symbian blog and the page in twitter and Facebook will be also closed.
Earlier Nokia announced its plans on closing Symbian Foundation and returning its control over the popular OS. According to new working conditions, Symbian mobile application developers have to obtain licenses for their developments.
Now about 100 people work in the Symbian Foundation. In case of transferring Symbian under Nokia’s complete control only 20-30 employees will be left.
In the press release the head of the Symbian Foundation Tim Holbrow admitted that recently the mobile market has undergone some seismic changes that has had a great impact on the economic component of the mobile OS sphere. ‘ As a result, the present structure of the Symbian platform management – a non-profit fund – isn’t acute anymore,’ stated Holbrow.
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