iAnywhere Solutions, the mobile and wireless division of Sybase SA, has become the first local m-business technology provider to support mobile application development environments, including C/C++, Java, PowerBuilder and VisualBasic.
Through partnerships with vendors such as AppForge, Borland and Metrowerks, iAnywhere Solutions enables the mobile database to be used in a broad range of development options.
"Developers can now better leverage their existing knowledge and experience to create m-business solutions, a key factor in fuelling the growth of the mobile business application market," says Deon Engelbrecht, business development manager at iAnywhere Solutions SA. "This is the culmination of our strategy to expand mobile application development options through key partnerships and internal technology development."
Over the past few months, iAnywhere has conducted extensive testing to integrate its SQL Anywhere Studio, a data management and business synchronisation solution, with all of the most popular mobile application development environments.
"We teamed with iAnywhere on the extremely successful beta program for the new UltraLite Component Suite, which facilitates the development of mobile applications using MobileVB," says Sara Downs, director of strategic accounts at AppForge. "Our continued joint development and integration will further lower the barriers to entry and costs for m-business development."
As part of this initiative, iAnywhere Solutions announced the inclusion of SQL Anywhere Studio in CodeWarrior Development Tools for Palm OS Enterprise Edition, Version 8.0 from Metrowerks.
iAnywhere also launched a beta of the UltraLite Component Suite, which opened handheld database development to AppForge's Mobile VB, Java and Visual Basic.
iAnywhere is expanding its relationship with Borland to provide developers with an additional, fully tested Java-based development tool.
"We are excited that iAnywhere demonstrated its integration with the award-winning Borland JBuilder in the Java technology education session at TechWave. By working with one of the top mobile database technology providers, we will continue to fuel Java development of end-to-end mobile business applications," says Tony de la Lama, GM and VP of Java solutions at Borland.
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