My mistake... http://www.perforce.com/perforce/success/symbian.html suggests 300+ developers. The page I was looking at (http://developer.symbian.com/main/getstarted/steam.jsp) is about what's called the Symbian OS Team, but that appears to be just their support team.
Al. --- * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tote Sent: 19 May 2009 14:49 To: Android Discuss Subject: [android-discuss] Re: How many Google engineers working on Android? Symbian had hundreds of developers working on Symbian OS. So did Nokia, btw, but it's an altitude more than Symbian's stuff. On May 17, 8:25 pm, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > The only time I have experiences companies or groups trying to hide > information about their size is when the answer is so small it would make > them look unprofessional. > > From the amount of interaction on these lists, the git committers > information, etc. I'd take a guess that there are probably 5 to 10 developers > (maximum), 2 or 3 managers, and 4 or 5 advocates, making a total size of > around 15 to 25. > > This would put them roughly on par with the Symbian core OS team, but the > Symbian team don't do the per-manufacturer apps and customisations. > > Al. > > --- > > * Written an Android App? - List it athttp://andappstore.com/* > > ====== > Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the > company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, > 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. > > The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not > necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's > subsidiaries. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Al > Sent: 17 May 2009 17:21 > To: Android Discuss > Subject: [android-discuss] Re: How many Google engineers working on Android? > > I doubt you'll get an answer. I asked someone from the dev team the > same question in irc, he said they aren't allowed to say *shrug* > > On May 17, 5:31 am, Raphael <[email protected]> wrote: > > Out of curiosity, why? > > R/ > > > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 9:32 AM, nictam <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Dear all, everything is in the subject.. I was curious to get at least > > > a rough estimate of how many eng are involved in Android (s/w > > > architect, developpers, ...)! > > > > thanks, nictam --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
