Symbian Foundation Builds Cloud Platform on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Written by Red Hat Inc
Monday, 15 March 2010
Mobile Open Source Foundation Uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Cloud-Based Developer Platform
RALEIGH, N.C.--Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Symbian Foundation, a global non-profit organization formed to foster an open source community around its mobile device software, has adopted Red Hat Enterprise Linux to provide a scalable, high-performance base for its private, cloud-based developer website and server.
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The Symbian Foundation needed a reliable, cost-effective open source solution. It uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the operating system for its developer site developer.symbian.org, which acts as a single point of entry for users to access code, wikis, developer training and support. Red Hat also runs most of Symbian's servers, which have been licensed through IBM Services.
"We share a complementary vision for open source with Red Hat and truly believe that open source software has the ability to transform any business," said Ian McDonald, head of IT for the Symbian Foundation. "Working with Red Hat has been one of the many stepping stones toward achieving our goal of open sourcing the Symbian code base."
By deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux in their cloud environment, the Symbian Foundation improved its ability to scale with business changes, new requirements and peaks in website traffic without the need to invest more heavily in additional onsite software and hardware resources. Additionally, performance and manageability have increased with the greater ease of use and improved support delivered with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, combined with the solution's ability to handle heavy, mission-critical workloads.
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About the Symbian Foundation
The Symbian Foundation is an independent, non-profit organisation whose mission is to enable an open ecosystem that collaborates to create the most complete and richest user experiences for mobile devices. Symbian maintains the code for an open source software platform based on Symbian OS and software assets contributed by Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, and Sony Ericsson, including the S60 and MOAP(S) user interfaces. Portions of the platform's source code have already been moved to open source, under the Eclipse Public License. By mid-2010 this process will be complete, making the platform code available to all for free.
The foundation software licensing model and governance structure has been designed to secure transparency, encourage contribution and maintain platform consistency. The foundation promotes collaboration, contributions and active participation, and operates as a meritocracy.
Symbian's board of directors is comprised of the following companies: AT&T Mobility LLC, Fujitsu Limited, Nokia Corporation, NTT DOCOMO, INC., Qualcomm Innovation Center, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, ST Microelectronics NV, Texas Instruments Inc., Vodafone Group Services Ltd.
The Symbian Foundation has offices in the UK (London), US (Foster City), Japan (Tokyo), Finland (Helsinki), China (Beijing) and South Korea (Seoul).
For more information please visit www.symbian.org and blog.symbian.org.
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