VOLANTIS RELEASES MOBILITY SERVER TO THE OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY

GUILDFORD, U.K.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Volantis Systems, which provides the Intelligent Content Delivery™ software delivering mobile content to more than 350 million mobile phone users worldwide, today released its Mobility Server to the open source community under the GNU General Public License (GPL), version three. In all the company opened 1.2 million lines of code, the result of seven years’ of development, to the community. The company also launched the Mobility Server Project to help developers build out the mobile platform.

Volantis is the first mobile content delivery solutions vendor to open source its code and the effort is part of the company’s move to the enterprise market. In offering its Mobility Server to the community, Volantis hopes to drive adoption and encourage more companies to bring usable and compelling content to the mobile Web.

“Open source software and independent developers are quickly becoming the most important movement in telecommunications industry,” said Luis Almansa of Telefonica. “Telefonica has a strong desire to work with open source projects which is why we created the OpenMovilForum project. It’s also why we fully support the idea that Volantis develops its own open source initiative.”

The mobile Web is the next major growth point for online communications, but the ever-growing variety of mobile devices on the market makes it difficult to develop powerful Web applications. Volantis Mobility Sever makes it cheap and easy for companies to create this content and distribute it to the more than 5,000 mobile devices currently on the market.

“The mobile web is rapidly becoming the platform upon which mobile data revenues will be generated. Open source overcomes the limitations imposed on content creation by license-fees,” said Nick Lane, director, Direct2 Mobile research. “Open source will redefine the extent to which content publishers will be able to utilize and capitalize on the mobile web’s opportunity and enable the emergence of the long tail of content. Everyone’s a winner.”

“The Internet grew, in large part, because it was easy to develop for the Web. Not only were browsers relatively standardized, but the tools to create databases and complex systems are open and available,” said Volantis CEO Mark Watson. “Our goal is to bring that same openness to the mobile Web. Developing for this market is difficult thanks to the splintered phone market, which will only continue to diversify. Developers need an easy-to-use tool with a proven device library in order to help their creativity come alive.”

Volantis made its Mobility Server available as a free download in November 2007. By open sourcing the product, it hopes to tap into the broader development community to enhance and build upon its work. The company has long contributed to a community standards process, driven by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), to create the Device Independent Authoring Language (DIAL) specification. Web development markup languages that comply with the DIAL specification, such as Volantis-created XDIME, can be used interchangeably to create content viewable on any mobile device. Given the maturity of the Volantis platform, the company felt the timing was right to offer its product to the community.

Pricing and Availability

To support the Volantis Mobility Server, Volantis has launched a new portion of its website to provide information on the new product version, to allow contributor input and to get started using the product. The new website is located at http://opensource.volantis.com.

About Volantis

Volantis (www.volantis.com) is the world’s leading supplier of Intelligent Content Adaptation solutions for the Mobile Internet, providing applications, tools and platforms that solve the complexity of delivering optimized services to any mobile device.

Volantis software is protected by the following granted and pending patent applications: United Kingdom: 2371896, European Patent EP 1320972 (Ireland, France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Switzerland), pending European Patent Application EP 1641211 (designating Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom), Hong Kong: HK1049046, Japan: 2002-531257, Singapore: 95431, 200301776-9, India: 325/DEL/03, South Korea: 7004318/03, People’s Republic of China: ZL01819526, US: 10/381802.