LiMo Foundation Joins the Wholesale Applications Community
Formalisation of natural strategic alignment between two major industry groups
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- LiMo Foundation today announced that it has joined the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC) as an Associate Participant with a view to congregate developers around a robust application distribution ecosystem and an unrivalled addressable market. All future releases of the LiMo Platform will support the WAC runtime, thereby enabling LiMo developers to distribute their applications across multiple WAC compliant stores.
“LiMo is committed to promoting consolidation and co-operation amongst industry stakeholders around a common set of technologies in order to accelerate the delivery of innovative applications and services to mobile consumers globally,” said Morgan Gillis, executive director of LiMo Foundation. “We are excited to be part of this alliance of telecommunication companies and we believe that our highly complementary areas of focus, shared belief in true openness and common industry vision will create opportunities for deep and long-term collaboration between LiMo Foundation and the Wholesale Applications Community.”
“One of the key objectives of WAC is to drive web technology across multiple platforms by providing a consistent widget runtime and specifying a broad range of device and network APIs,” said Peters Suh, CEO of WAC. “We are delighted to welcome LiMo Foundation and look forward to working together to bring universal availability of WAC apps a step closer.”
Announced in February 2010 , WAC has made significant headway towards achieving its objective of establishing a simple route to market for developers and is expected to publish its initial specifications and SDKs to developers next month. As an Associate Participant, LiMo will participate and contribute to the various WAC working groups and will be able influence the future WAC specs and roadmap.
About LiMo Foundation
LiMo FoundationTM is a dedicated consortium of mobile industry leaders working together within an open and transparent governance model—with shared leadership and shared decision making—to deliver an open and globally consistent handset software platform based upon mobile Linux for use by the whole mobile industry. A full description of LiMo Foundation, including its vision, goals, charter, guiding principles, bylaws and membership information, can be found at www.limofoundation.org.
About the Wholesale Applications Community
Launched in February 2010, the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC) is an open global alliance formed from leading organisations within the telecoms sector. Uniting a fragmented applications marketplace, WAC will create an open industry platform that benefits the entire ecosystem, including applications developers, handset manufacturers, OS owners, network operators and end users.
The Wholesale Applications Community will:
- Accelerate and expand the market for applications – Simplify application development by giving developers the opportunity to write applications that can be deployed across multiple platforms and multiple operators, and address a potential global market of more than 3 billion users.
- Create more compelling applications – Enable developers to utilise both device and network capabilities to create the next generation of applications.
- Provide greater choice for users – Enable portability of applications across devices, operating systems and network operators.
For a list of members and more information, please go to www.wholesaleappcommunity.com
CONTACT:
LiMo Media Contact:
Interprose PR for LiMo Foundation
Laurie Bowser-Sever
P: +1 919 469 7102
M: +1 919 272 5984
E: lbsever (at) interprosepr.com
or
WAC Press Contacts:
Phil Rawcliffe, 07889 320159
press@wholesaleappcommunity.com
or
Claire Cranton, 07885 839427
press@wholesaleappcommunity.com
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