Symbian Foundation Builds Cloud Platform on Red Hat

Red Hat also runs most of Symbian’s servers

Apr. 5, 2010 09:30 AM

Enterprise Cloud Computing Track at Cloud Expo

Not to mix metaphors or anything but the Symbian Foundation, which is trying to foster a new open source community around the old Nokia-proprietary mobile phone operating system, is basing the private cloud platform that hosts its developer web site developer.symbian.org on Red Hat's Linux. Red Hat also runs most of Symbian's servers, which have been licensed through IBM Services.

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