Adobe to Acquire Nitobi
The software developer Adobe has announced during the MAX 2011, the takeover of Nitobi known. The company is known primarily for PhoneGap, a cross-platform development environment for mobile applications. Were also confirms the rumors that PhoneGap transferred as a project of the Apache Foundation will.
According Nitobi will be ensured under the auspices of the Apache Foundation that PhoneGap continue as an open-source project available. This is accompanied by a name change will go - from PhoneGap Apache will call back. Adobe itself has already given his blessing and will continue to take care of the hosting community sites and commercial PhoneGap-build services.
Completely surprisingly, the purchase of Nitobi not PhoneGap was already supported by Adobe with the latest Dreamweaver CS 5.5. From a commercial point of view in particular the cloud service PhoneGap build will play a role at Adobe. With it, Adobe has access to several proprietary solutions that allow for cloud-based app development, without any need to install the individual developers of each platform SDKs. Specific information for future use Adobe currently does not, however, speaks of it, accessible via a paid hosting service with PhoneGap build new and existing customers want.
Adobe has in the past the accusations have to put up, to have missed the trend for new web technologies like CSS 3 and HTML 5. Adobe and Adobe After Muse Edge, the company and especially with PhoneGap PhoneGap build has now one more tool for Web-based development of free applications on the flash source. According to official figures, has been downloaded over 600,000 times PhoneGap and is used in thousands of applications running IOS, Android, BlackBerry and other platforms.
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