Nov 13
Volantis, maker of the Volantis Mobility Server has done what all of the cool kids are doing, and has started down an open source strategy.
Today, they released a “community” version of their mobility server for free, and it will shortly become GPLv3.
The Volantis Mobility Server, both as a free download and, ultimately, an open source product, includes all the features necessary to deliver corporate content to mobile phones, including:
- a multi channel server, which automatically adapts web markup for mobile and other devices
- the XDIME markup interpreter, which implements the emergent DIAL standard
- development tools, delivered as plugins to the Eclipse open source developers toolkit
- a client side mobile AJAX widget library
- a device database, providing information necessary to render content for specific devices, and including information about more than 4600 devices
Of course, the devil is often in the details of what they opened up, and what is still in the professional version.
February 6th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
This really doesn’t look that attractive. I guess it would if I wanted to host my personal (i.e., non-commercial site) or if I was just a developer trying to play with the software. But other than that, I just don’t see the value. There are other solutions out there that have done this under what they called ‘evaluation’ versions for almost 5-10 years. Including true community products that aren’t released by a commercial vendor (i.e., the older WURFL/WALL, etc.)
I still haven’t seen any great sites that seem to be both customer friendly and even company friendly from Volantis.