These days, vendors of all stripes want to tout their "openness" to developers. But one analyst thinks two of the bigger players need to take their open platform ambitions a step further and merge.

Jack Gold, who heads J. Gold Associates, posits the inevitability of a merger between Google's Android and Nokia's Symbian mobile operating systems in a report released July 24 titled, "And-rian or Sym-droid?"

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