EMCC foresees a significant reduction in platform fragmentation that will mean a combination of reduced time to market, wider addressable markets for new products, plus reduced porting and testing costs for the leading Smartphone platform in the mobile industry. This should also result in a significant number of new players licensing the new open source platform from the Symbian Foundation for an even wider range of products.

EMCC is a strong advocate of unified open source software written to common coding standards being freely available to all and applauds this very bold initiative by the major asset holders in the Symbian ecosystem.

"The reduction in fragmentation brought about in the common platform will allow a significant reduction in costs to our customers who require their applications and technology implemented on a range of Symbian devices" said Leigh Edwards, CEO. "The establishment of standards and commonality is of critical importance to the development of any technology industry but especially in communications based software.

Placing such a vast amount of software assets into the hands of the whole mobile industry on a royalty free basis will create changes of seismic proportions. EMCC is delighted by this announcement and plans to be a very active participant in the new Symbian Foundation."

About EMCC

EMCC Software is a leading provider of mobile software solutions and consultancy services. EMCC was chosen as an inaugural member of each of the Symbian Competence Center, S60 Competence Center and UIQ Competence Center industry accreditation programmes. This level of accreditation is achieved through outstanding Symbian development experience combined with a depth of knowledge of all platforms and rigorous application of programming standards and processes. As a preferred supplier to many major organisations associated with the mobile industry, EMCC provides expert solutions at all levels from operating system and platform components up to third party applications. EMCC offers full service product creation and support including Symbian Signed certification, requirements analysis and consultancy and advanced developer training.

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