Symbian Foundation has recently scored a new member. It’s Open Kernel Labs, which is provider of embedded virtualization software for mobile phones and broadband internet devices. The idea behind their move is to “support the growing demand for mobile devices that are virtualized with OKL4, and rely on the Symbian operating system (OS).”
Commenting on the announcement, OK Labs’ CEO Steve Subar said: “The partnership with Symbian reflects our ongoing commitment to delivering superior technology to the mobile device market. The combination of the most widely used Smartphone OS, Symbian, and OKL4, the most widely used open source embedded virtualization solution, brings an unprecedented degree of integration and collaboration to mobile application developers, device OEMs and network operators.”
For the record, OKL4 is the only commercially deployed embedded virtualization solution for mobile phones, with shipments approaching 250 million units in 2008…
[Via: SymbianFreak]