Nokia Sells Off Symbian Professional Services To Accenture
At MobileBeat2009 conference,Symbian announced the launch of Horizon, an application publishing platform for the Symbian OS. Now Nokia has announced the sale of its Symbian professional services group to global management consulting firm Accenture. The move is meant to distance Nokia enough from Symbian so that other handset manufacturers feel comfortable adopting the Symbian platform. “Services provided by the Symbian Professional Services teams include advanced technical support, techniques for enhancing performance, memory, and power, advanced error diagnosis and repair, and turnkey software development services that can be used in a range of technical environments.
Approximately 165 people will transfer to Accenture as a result of the agreement. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close by the end of third quarter 2009.”





