Accenture to Acquire Symbian Professional Services Operations from Nokia

Consulting firm Accenture has announced their plans to acquire the Symbian Professional Services group from Nokia. The group is responsible for customer engineering and customer support with regards to the Symbian operating system.

Approximately 165 Nokia professional services engineers and consultants in the United Kingdom, Finland, Japan, Korea and Australia are expected to transfer to Accenture as a result of the agreement.  Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Peter Ropke, senior vice president of Devices at Nokia, said, “This agreement allows the Symbian professional services team to realize its full potential in the supply of independent services to the open-source ecosystem. The transaction underscores Nokia’s commitment to the open-source community and the Symbian ecosystem.”

Blogger Robert Scoble started a good discussion last week about Nokia, Symbian and the mobile market in Europe.