LiMo and GNOME has entered into strategic alliance with an aim of collaborating closely an open source innovation.

LiMo Platform is a Linux based mobile device platform developed by using open source technologies, including multiple components from GNOME Mobile project such as Glib, GTK+, D-Bus, GStreamer and BlueZ, amongst others.

Morgan Gillis, executive director of LiMo, said: "LiMo has a proud heritage of well established open source technology and is committed to bringing open source innovation to a broad range of commercial products.

"This close alignment between LiMo and GNOME provides important support for this commitment and will take in an expanding ecosystem of products and services developed by GNOME developers in conjunction with the members of LiMo Foundation."

Stormy Peters, executive director of GNOME, said: "The objective of GNOME Mobile is to provide a platform for the next stage of client computing. We are committed to bringing the quality and freedom of GNOME to users on mobile platforms.

"We are excited to work with commercial partners like the LiMo Foundation to ensure that GNOME Mobile technologies are available on mobile and connected devices incorporating the LiMo platform."