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04/04/2006, 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
Speaker:
Fabrizio Capobianco, CEO, Funambol.
Recent reports show that consumers want mobile email access on their phones - while traditional mobile email provider Research in Motion is voicing concerns about its ability to add new subscriptions to its mobile email services.
Why the irony? If consumers want mobile email, why aren't companies such as Research in Motion growing their subscriptions? Because proprietary solutions have been developed and sold without the developer or consumer in mind. Developers want a transparent community of peers contributing to the code, making it better for developers to turn into differentiated products and services for their organizations and companies. Consumers want access to mobile email and applications regardless of network type or device manufacturer.
Mobile open source is emerging as the key technology positioned to accelerate ubiquitous mobile email and to make mobile email real. Until only recently, CIOs and developers working on mobile email, Web surfing, calendaring, and contact management have been required to choose among different proprietary tools to give consumers the mobile email and data service access they demand. The tools were expensive, and there were many different competing protocols. It was like the Tower of Babel for mobile phone consumers. Now, with mobile open source pioneered by Funambol (which supports the open source project Sync4j), developers have access to solutions that perform all of these functions and supports mobile services on all networks and devices.
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