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AppForge to deliver full Microsoft Smartphone support for MobileVB, Crossfire and Booster products - new way to write applications for MS Smartphone is coming! October 30, 2003 [MS Smartphone] | By anonymous 1. Number of Microsoft smartphones sold is slowly reaching a critical mass - the turning point, at which more and more software development companies will not be able resist anymore releasing products also for Microsoft smartphone platform - if they donīt want to lose market share to their competition. AppForge is a company offering software development solutions, that allow for rapid (with use of Visual Basic or Visual Basic .NET) and multi-platform (by now: Palm OS, Symbian, Pocket PC) software development of wireless/mobile applications. As a follow-up to our previous story about Crossfire from AppForge we have been just talking personally to Mark Lummus, who is a Vice President, Product Management at AppForge. Good news is: support for Microsoft smartphone is coming and we can expect first versions of all AppForge products (MobileVB, Crossfire, Booster) to be released ... also for Microsoft smartphone early next year (2004). The simplest solution from AppForge - the MobileVB Solo - costs just 250 USD and allows for wireless software development - after completing the application the developer can distribute the application for end customers. To run application written in MobileVB (an add-on for Visual Basic 6), the end user needs a kind of virtual machine - in terminology of AppForge this runtime is called "Booster". Previously AppForge Booster was not free for all platforms but now it has become free - all consumer users for platforms like Pocket PC, Symbian and Palm OS can fetch the AppForge Booster for free. Booster is (and will stay) commercial only for a limited number of industrial platforms, like devices made by Symbol corporation. As a next step in the development, AppForge decided to offer multi-platform develpment also for Visual Studio .NET - the product that makes it possible is called "AppForge Crossfire" and it will be released in December 2003. Applications written with AppForge Crossfire will be executable by the newest version of the Booster, that will also be free. Yes, full Microsoft smartphone support will become available early next year in all AppForge products. This is radical change from previous position of AppForge (click here to read about querying of AppForge company at CeBIT 2003 in Germany/EU), and it means that all of a sudden the number of applications available for MS Smartphone will increase significantly. Thousands of applications written by developers with help of AppForge tools, will become, after short adaptation (if needed), available also for Microsoft smartphone. For more information about rapid multi-platform software development solutions from AppForge click here.  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 1 Comment ]
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