Sunday, November 04, 2007
Welcoming Google to Mobile Open Source
A few years back, when I filed for the "mobile open source" trademark, I thought I was onto something. In my view, mobile was going to be THE next platform. Open Source was going to be THE way to develop on it. I thought the ability of developers around the world to work on many different platforms and port applications on billions of devices would be the killer factor. I thought there was no killer app in mobile, the killer was going to be the way to allow people to build them. That a community effort was the only way to make it...Today, I am definitely not alone touting mobile open source :-) Big giant Google announced the Open Handset Alliance. A group of powerful companies, coming together to build a mobile open source infrastructure, called Android.
It is just awesome. Welcome Google to the mobile open source world. We needed someone with weight to push this effort to the next level. Open networks, Open source, Open devices. That's the future of mobile. We are just at the beginning.
Stay tuned for the SDK preview, which is coming out on Nov 12. The license is Apache 2.0. The OS is Linux. The application stack is Java. Open. Open. Open.
Posted by Fabrizio at 20:03
7 Comments:
paoloc said...
This is going to be a revolution in the mobile market.
We now have two _open_ mobile platforms, OpenMoko, that seems to be more mature at the moment, and Android.
I just wonder whether Google plans to somehow support the OpenMoko project, from the SW point of view it seems to be the right choice but their HW partner could not like the idea ;-) (OpenMoko is partner of FIC while Android/Google is partner of HTC)
Comment Posted at 00:58
German Viscuso said...
Amazing! They also announced the OpenSocial API a few days ago. We should go and buy Google stock! =)
Fabrizio: any comments on the release of the Microsoft Sync Framework?
Best regards.
Comment Posted at 12:51
Well the question is what will Andriod do to SyncML ?
Comment Posted at 22:43
Fabrizio said...
If you look at the Android SDK, there are some SyncML Test classes. It is not a real framework, but I am ready to bet SyncML will be part of Android. BTW, we are also announcing the porting of our Funambol client to Android, linking the mobile open source client to the mobile open source server ;-)
fabrizio
Comment Posted at 08:34
paoloc said...
Ciao Fabrizio,
is there a versiona of the Funambol client available for the OpenMoko platform as well?
-- Paolo
Comment Posted at 08:49
Fabrizio said...
We are actually working with OpenMoko and FIC on a client with extended support for OpenMoko. I am not sure about the release date, but it should be soon.
fabrizio
Comment Posted at 08:58
paoloc said...
That's very good! Thanks Fabrizio.
-- Paolo
