Symbian: Mobile Linux ‘fragmentation city’
Speaking at the Mobility Summit in London on Monday, Andrew Moran said that mobile Linux was fragmentation city and completely unfeasible. Despite describing Linux as being important as a web server platform, Moran claimed it was currently too hard for enterprise users to plan deployment of open source on mobile handsets. You would have to have a rock-solid business case to do that, he added.
Nigel Heaney, the EMEA telecoms director for mobile applications company Dexterra, agreed that there are currently no suitable devices that run Linux, but hinted that such devices are starting to appear. He also suggested that RIM’s BlackBerry smartphones would become less popular in the future, as Microsoft and Nokia increasingly drive the marketplace.
