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I would speculate that this will not help Accenture to acquire new development talent. After all, who would want to work with an expired technology?
by scrrr 16y ago
I would speculate that this will not help Accenture to acquire new development talent. After all, who would want to work with an expired technology?
- Maro 16y ago== 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.
- crb 16y agoWhy 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 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.