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Some time ago, I discovered an interesting company with unorthodox approach to mobile application development. I’m talking about Funambol, the world’s leading mobile open source company, which was started four years ago from what was then the sync4j open source project.
Funambol offers a SyncML-based mobile application server that provides push email, multimaster PIM synchronization, and management facilities for mobile devices. The company’s solution is also an open source development platform for building and deploying a large variety of mobile applications.
Two major benefits of the open source solution – customization and lower costs are certainly among the top reasons why Funambol’s solution has been downloaded more than any other wireless middleware product – 750,000+ times. The commercial version has been deployed at wireless carriers, Global 1000 enterprises, hardware OEMs/ODMs and ISVs including customers such as Computer Associates.
Funambol is headquartered in Redwood City, California with a development center in Italy. The company has raised $5M in venture funding from top-tier venture firms.
About The Author
Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
