We are proud to announce that Rhomobile has been acquired by Motorola
Solutions (MSI). For those who are not familiar with MSI, this is the part
of the original Motorola that focuses specifically on solutions for
businesses and governments. All Rhomobile products will continue to be sold
and supported globally. Rhodes will continue to be available open source
under the MIT License.
With our shared passion in enabling enterprise mobility, Motorola Solutions
is an ideal partner:
We have the shared focus on the enterprise with a strong commitment to
partners. Motorola Solutions will provide the scale, resources, industry
knowledge to accelerate universal adoption of Rho technology. Motorola
Solutions is strategically committed to the Rhomobile suite of products
Motorola Solutions is committed to supporting the Rhomobile community and
continuing the open source her... (more)
Rhomobile is now a Motorola Solutions Company
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Rhomobile has always been focused on providing a modern open and
standards-based way to mobilize enterprise apps. The first product we offered
for that was Rhodes, an open source framework which makes it easy to build
native smartphone apps using your web skills.
But we also offered RhoSync, a modern mobile sync server that synchronizes
data from backend applications down to the Rhodes apps on devices. We were
proud that we made mobile data synchronization much easier, faster and more
scalable than any of the other aging MEAP platforms that offer
synchronization today.
What we ... (more)
HTML5 is an answer, but not the answer.
The debate about native apps versus browser-based apps is like a technology
version of the pundits on cable TV. In this case, though, only one side is
shouting – users have already decided that native apps are their
overwhelming preference. The InfoWorld article, “Will HTML5 Kill the Mobile
App?” has a great title, but the complaints boil down to the following:
The Difficulty of Acceptance into App Stores
At this point, most developers have a good sense of what it takes to get
accepted. And much of the controversy comes not from the apps them... (more)
I’m here at RailsConf 2010. What a great place to talk to current and
prospective Rhodes developers! Rails developers all get why its important to
have a full Model View Controller framework. They also get pretty excited
about the presence of the first mobile Ruby on every smartphone device. Rails
developers get the value of Rhodes deeper than any audience I’ve
encountered.
A couple of the other talks, from otherwise insightful web framework
developers, who apparently have “smartphone envy”, were disturbing. One
speaker talked about his efforts to make Rails a little better for ... (more)
Adam Blum is CEO of Rhomobile. He came from Good Technology and while spending millions on enterprise mobile application development he realized there was a need for a framework for enterprises to build mobile applications easily and cost-effectively empower their workforce without training their programmers to learn different programming languages and building apps from scratch. He has spoken at Interop in Las Vegas and at Ruby events all over the world.
David Lucas
Cathy Lopez
Shaul Efraim
Terence Martin Breslin
Cory Marchand
David Hughes
James Carlini
John Iffert
Dan Stolts
Joe Zeto
