Appcelerator Lures 3,000 Developers To Titanium

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF., July 16, 2009 — Appcelerator®, the only open source provider that enables developers to rapidly create mobile, desktop, and web applications from a single platform, today announced that – just one month after the beta release of its flagship Appcelerator Titanium™ platform – it has signed up 3,000 new developers, who are creating a variety of applications for the iPhone and Android mobile devices.

The Titanium platform enables web developers to leverage their deep knowledge of industry standard tools and technologies to easily and quickly create rich native applications that are connected to the web. Almost every Titanium-created mobile application uses web connectivity, leverages information from a customer datacenter or user base, and mixes in device-centric contextual functionality like geo-location or mobile file system access. The result is a new class of mobile applications unlike those seen in today’s app stores.

“The Titanium platform is opening the floodgates for the world’s millions of web developers to fuel the next wave of mobile app creation,” said Jeff Haynie, co-founder and CEO at Appcelerator. “Today’s app stores are heavy on gaming and entertainment apps, with these categories making up 35% of Apple’s store. Titanium-created applications are showing themselves to be quite different, with nearly 40% of applications under development either business, social networking, productivity or utility applications that exploit the web. This is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the depth and breadth of mobile applications web developers will bring to market.”

The top three categories in Appcelerator’s pipeline include:

• Utilities — (15%): including server monitoring, home management, budgeting, and barcode scanning applications
• Business — (14%): including mobile ports of existing SaaS-based enterprise apps, ERP, CRM, and onsite billing/quoting/invoicing applications
• Social Networking — (10%): including social aggregation, friend finder, job/employment, and Twitter applications.

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