Lee Williams, CEO of Symbian Foundation, stated in an interview that he believes it is "very likely" that netbooks and tablets will start running Symbian in the next couple of years. Back in April, we blogged about the possibility that the smartphone OS would enter the netbook market. Now that Symbian Foundation has announced that the platform has gone open source, a process that involved the company negotiating with 200 third-party owners, the likelihood of the OS being ported to netbooks and tablet devices has increased even more.
Symbian supports both ARM and Intel x86 processors, and companies are beginning to experiment with the platform any which way they can to run it on a multitude of devices.
The source code is broken down into 108 packages, all of which can be downloaded here.
To read the full interview with Williams, click here.
Via ZDNet, image via GlobalThoughtz.
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