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May 7, 2009Rhomobile Named Best of Interop 2009 Awards Finalist
RhodesCross-Platform Smartphone Development Framework Nominated as Bestof Interop for Wireless and Mobility
CUPERTINO, Calif., May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Rhomobile today announced that
it is a finalist in the Best of Interop 2009 Awards for Wireless and
Mobility. The company's flagship product, Rhodes, is the first open
source framework for building native applications more efficiently and
for all smartphone operating systems. It allows developers to write an
application once and automatically build native applications for all
smartphones including iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian and
Android. With Rhodes, development cost is typically 20 percent of the
cost of writing to the native device SDK directly, for just one device
operating system. Releases on additional platforms bring almost no
incremental development cost.
The Best of Interop Awards recognize companies that have made
significant technological advancements in specific category areas.
Winners represent the products that the judges believe have the most
significant technical impact on their segment and are helping to move
business technology forward. The awards will be presented on Tuesday,
May 19, 2009 at Interop Las Vegas, North America's largest and most
comprehensive business technology event.
"We created the Rhodes smartphone development framework to allow the
enterprise to quickly enable their mobile workforce without having to
limit efforts to a single smartphone OS or worry about diverse
programming languages," said Adam Blum, CEO of Rhomobile. "It is a
great honor that the Rhodes framework has been nominated for this
prestigious award."
While enabling development of true native apps for all smartphones,
Rhodes allows developers to code their interface in HTML instead of
diverse and complex native device operating system languages. Rhodes
reduces development costs by up to five times and eliminates the need
to develop specific applications for each mobile OS. Rhodes' unique
framework allows for creation of robust mobile applications that can
take full advantage of smartphone capabilities such as GPS, PIM
contacts and camera. Rhodes is ideal for mobile applications that
require interaction with hosted enterprise application (SaaS) backends
such as CRM and ERP, and allows the user to work offline with
synchronized local data.
The Rhodes framework is available at http://www.rhomobile.com/download.
RhodesFeatures:
-- Makes developers five times more productive for even a single
smartphone OS
-- Allows developers to write native apps (not web apps) in HTML
and simultaneously build for all smartphones
-- Supports iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian and
Android
-- Features the world's first Ruby implementations for the
supported smartphones
-- Full access to device capabilities: GPS, PIM contacts and
camera
-- Allows users to work with synced local data for rapid access
and ease of operation when disconnected or offline
-- Available as open source real time on public repositories
Rhodes is available under unique and flexible pricing options suitable
for a range of smartphone application efforts providing low cost
options for the enterprise to enable their mobile workforce and
encouraging entrepreneurial innovation. Rhomobile offers dual licensing
under GPLv3 for open source apps and commercial licensing options for
enterprises and ISVs.
Availability
The Rhodes framework is now available at
http://www.rhomobile.com/download.
About Rhomobile
Rhomobile, Inc. offers the world's leading open source framework for
business mobility solutions. Founded in 2008 by a team of Silicon
Valley veterans, the company's award winning software has hundreds of
active developers and is ideal for independent software vendors, system
integrators and enterprises of all sizes. Powered by a revolutionary
approach to mobile application development, Rhomobile offers
comprehensive, modern, highly adaptable and low-cost solutions and
support services to developers around the world. Rhomobile,
headquartered in Cupertino, CA, is a privately held company with
backing from vSpring Capital. For more information, please visit
rhomobile.com.
Rhomobile and Rhodes are registered trademarks of Rhomobile, Inc. All
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their respective owners.