Accenture picks up Symbian development from Nokia
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Accenture picks up Symbian development from Nokia
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Re: Accenture picks up Symbian development from Nokia
#2A massive influx of developer talent, but with a lot of baggage - a managemetn headache for Accenture but the developers will be worht more than the OS in the long run
Re: Accenture picks up Symbian development from Nokia
#3I would speculate that this will not help Accenture to acquire new development talent. After all, who would want to work with an expired technology?
Re: Accenture picks up Symbian development from Nokia
#4Accenture positioning themselves as a support monopoly for deprecated but widely adopted--and therefore highly lucrative--technology?
Re: Accenture picks up Symbian development from Nokia
#5I would speculate that this will not help Accenture to acquire new development talent. After all, who would want to work with an expired technology?
== enterprise software?
Isn't that the core business of consulting firms like Accenture? To answer your question, eg. people in 1.5-2nd world countries who want to make a good living.
Re: Accenture picks up Symbian development from Nokia
#6I would speculate that this will not help Accenture to acquire new development talent. After all, who would want to work with an expired technology?
Why would Accenture need to use this to acquire new development talent? For starters, this is one division, not the entire company; and that division is now effectively the only people who can drive serious Symbian development. They are already working on the platform for the Japanese vendors who still use it, and now, if you want to target an application to the millions of people with Nokia phones, who else are you going to call?
I don't know who will own the direction of Symbian out of this move, but while Accenture has David Wood (http://uk.linkedin.com/in/dw2cco), I can't think of anyone better placed to continue Symbian development. Perhaps Accenture can be for Symbian what the Symbian Foundation was never allowed to do.
People re-train. As the demand for Symbian subsides - and that's still a multi-year proposition - Accenture can make these people useful on whatever other platforms people want to pay them to work with.
Re: Accenture picks up Symbian development from Nokia
#7Accenture positioning themselves as a support monopoly for deprecated but widely adopted--and therefore highly lucrative--technology?
They're already in that position, having bought the professional services division of Symbian Software from Nokia. As Symbian Software did in their day, Accenture do a lot of work with the other remaining Symbian licensees.
Re: Accenture picks up Symbian development from Nokia
#8Accenture + Symbian = Cobol?
Re: Accenture picks up Symbian development from Nokia
#9This is a enterprise apps positioning play for Accenture and not really a move to acquire additional symbian talent. Taking on a few hundred developers is not a big deal for a company which hires 60k workers every year...
Long term outsourcing revenues whilst Nokia restructures and a foot in the door around the enterprise smartphone/tablet app space with the MS gang.
Re: Accenture picks up Symbian development from Nokia
#10A massive influx of developer talent, but with a lot of baggage - a managemetn headache for Accenture but the developers will be worht more than the OS in the long run
That may be the strategy here - Symbian means the knowledge of building an OS that works for a wide range of models and specially lower end of cellular phones that rest of the world is catching up to.