The company built one of the first Intranet products in the market, SolWeb Intra, a web document management product which became the backbone for the Intranet of Kraft, Novartis, the Italian Broadcasting Television, the Italian Stock Exchange and the Bocconi University. Heinz Kraft Foods Inc.
Kraft Heinz Redbox Bowl A. Sandoz Ciba-Geigy Hexal Australia. Pavia, Italy comune di Pavia history. Funding Startup company History of private equity and venture capital Clean technology Georges Doriot. Our customers tell us that they chose Funambol due to open source, there is just no substitute to being able to work with the code and control it.
They also like the financial terms that we are able to provide. In terms of our business model, we use a dual license approach. We have a free open source version of our software, and a commercial Carrier Edition version, which has the functionality to deploy Funambol for the mass market. Carrier Edition includes scalability, load balancing, fault tolerance, over the air OTA configuration of devices for mobile email and much more that our commercial customers need to succeed.
It's a model that well serves both our open source community and our commercial customers — the funambolo is balancing quite well so far. GM: How do you expect Funambol's products in particular, and the world of mobile open source in general, to evolve? FC: In , Funambol's software will be deployed to many more users around the world. As such, our software will be enhanced to support even more devices, to be even easier to use and to have more mobile capabilities.
For example, we expect to provide important new releases of our software, that we develop in conjunction with our community, for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and other devices in the first part of You will also see integration with mobile advertising as a way to make the mass deployment of our software highly affordable.
Mobile open source overall is gaining major momentum. This is due not only to our software but to Android, which is generating a lot of interest amongst developers.
It is also the result of the trend of the opening up of mobile networks, which is partly being fuelled by Google and partly by the impending Mhz spectrum auction in the U. Mobile open source is starting to look like the internet did in the late s, with an explosion of innovation and new offerings.
It's exciting because we've been at the centre of this for five years and now others are joining us. GM: At first glance, the mobile phone market seems ripe for commoditisation, with Linux as the free operating system underpinning everything.
Why hasn't that happened, and will it ever happen? What effect will Apple's iPhone and Google's Android platform have on the situation? FC: As mentioned, the mobile phone market is huge.
Although you may think of a mobile phone as being primarily used for voice calls, texting or maybe a PDA, it's becoming the primary computing and communication device for many people. As a result, the market for mobile phones is extremely diverse, with many different types of users around the world. There will continue to be many choices for different types of mobile phones, just as there are many different types of cars years after they were invented.
This choice requires there to be different mobile operating systems OSs to meet the needs of different users. That said, mobile Linux is definitely gaining momentum and market share at the expense of other mobile OSs. The primary issue today for mobile Linux is fragmentation; there are several competing alternatives, which will be winnowed down by market forces over the next few years. We do expect that iPhone and Android will have a major impact on the adoption of mobile Linux, as both phones are based on it.
Apple just announced that they have sold 4 million iPhones in its first six months and we see this picking up steam like the iPod did. We expect them to gain significant market share at the expense of other device manufacturers over the next few years. Apple has a history of growing the iPod from single numbers of millions of units to tens of millions of units, and although there are different dynamics in the mobile industry, they look like they will achieve similar growth with the iPhone.
As to Android, it also has the potential to greatly shake up the industry. It could allow Google to provide low-cost or even free mobile services to the masses that are supported by mobile advertising. This could completely change the operating model for the wireless industry. The first production Android-based handsets are due in the second half of and it may take another rev or two of their software to make it right but they have deep pockets and are committed, plus they have the open source movement on their side.
Together, iPhone and Android will make a substantial impact on mobile Linux adoption. Se vogliamo fare aziende internazionali che creino posti di lavoro ci vuole il focus. Uno startupper deve capire dove sta andando il mondo e riuscire a partire non troppo presto ne troppo tardi ma al momento giusto.
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