Thread: Mobile world congress 2009 status
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attila77 is offline attila77
2009-02-16 , 17:19
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#40
Originally Posted by epertinez View Post
I can't care about maemo features if those are integrated in a device that has little meaning for the enterprise.
But who said Maemo (and it's devices) are strictly enterprise oriented ? Or that Linux is strictly enterprise oriented, for that matter ? I mean if it was called E810 I'd say, okay, I expect some enterprise functions, but the strength of the Maemo platform (as you yourself pointed out) is that it's not a specialist tool.

It is not only about Open Source. It is about Linux based Open Source. N97 is not going to run Firefox or OpenOffice or Phyton or apache+php or a printer device or a miriad of different software on it, because there are no Symbian based servers, no Symbian based Desktops and no Symbian based old computers with people making Links run on them with javascript enabled.
You've got this backwards. Python, Apache, Mysql, PHP, Firefox (as Fennec) all exist at least in some form for Symbian. You even have PAMP.

http://devphone.com/pamp-stack-on-s60-brings-you-php

Symbian started opening up not so long ago, so obviously Maemo has a headstart on them. In a month or two, you will have Qt on S60, which means a whole lot of apps. Linux is not an enterprise solution, but it CAN be a part of the solution that YOU must make. It just a kernel, ferrichsake. If you just want python, firefox, PIM, office stuff in a mainstream package, you might as well go with Windows mobile, or, if you can wait a little, go with Android, as it will certainly be/is PIM oriented.

But nokia has no equivalent in their potfolio so if N900 acts as a phone, then it is better to carry around a big phone-tablet that a big phone and a tablet.
It's not a phone, and I'm not really everybody agrees they want a big phone-tablet. I don't.