HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.

Sorry, my instant reaction to Accenture doing anything...

...take the redundancy option you'll probably have been offered. I know many people that would rather be on the dole, working behind a bar, or even emptying bins than working for Accshiture...

"If you work in advertising or marketing or for Accenture - kill yourself. No punchline, just - kill yourself."

As an ex-Accidenture employee (for all of 7 months before I quit) don't bother. Company sucks ass. They'll be developing on Windows 98 on a 486 with 32Mb RAM unless they've upgraded since I left in 2005....

Tight ass c*nts.

Didn't take long for Nokia to move from #1 to the next novell netware. For too long an arrogant company who didn't open up to developers or consumers. Apple and Google are eating this lot for dinner - what's left of them. Perhaps Miceosoft should buy them - at least they've got better technology than WinMo

I'll be amazed if Accenture manages to deliver any real technical advice to anyone - in all my years there it never ceased to amaze me that they were so disinterested in 'getting their hands dirty' and much preferred managing other people/organisations to do the real work. Their target margins are so large that such mundane activities as providing genuine technology are outsourced while they provide 'value added' services that you would never willingly pay for if you knew how little you were actually getting... These Nokia lads will be quickly rebranded as managers, trained how to use MS Project, and will never touch real code ever again...

(skull because they are clearly all pirates)

"...presumably requiring some sort of fast-track indoctrination into the Accenture way..."

presumably, if they do that there will be rather less than 165 of us left...

open source will catch up and overtake you. And in a few years you, and others like you, will be a distant memory to the professionals in this industry. Aha me hearties!!

This is a really lamentable end for the Symbian. No blaze of glory eh? Again me too as an ex accenture - they're really crap with technology and eveything that hasn't to do with management. Even the management is crap, but Accidenture are smart enough to fool the customers. Really bad bad company philosophy.

C'mon guys, Accenture aren't that bad.

They can deliver quality projects, and they manage to do it to time and budget!

They have saved many companies millions of pounds and have an excellent track record of...

AHH forget it... who am I kidding...

Accenture are the worst consultancy I've ever worked with. They somehow manage to get into bed with the senior management (and some of these aren't pretty) to ensure that their image at the top of a company isn't tarnished, and leave half baked implementations to fail, but still convince the company it wasn't their fault, it was the staff who weren't dedicated enough.

Blow them to smithereens...

Excellent! It's about time we had an Enron-style scandal in mobile apps!

If their company philosophy is as bad as the comments here suggest, I'm glad to be ditching symbian based handsets once and for all.

But, let's face it, Nokia can sell shit to chavs (note: gross stereotype!) and they lap it up. Reboot your phone twice a day? No worries, it's just modern life, innit? Early adopter? Be ready to upgrade your phone 5 times with our PC-based CrapSync before you get acceptable performance!

F(*& it, I'm going iPhone. They've finally managed to get cut n paste in there so sod this for a lark, I'm abandoning these old mobile OSs. Hell, symbian was shite to code in anyway!