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Funambol Mobile Open Source Community Testing Grows 2,000%, Downloads Gain 34% and Active Servers Increase 42%
Developers and Users Gravitate Towards Open Source Mobile Sync and Push Email in Response to World Economy; Mobile Social Networking Projects Jump in Popularity
| Source: Funambol
REDWOOD CITY, CA--(Marketwire - April 29, 2009) - Funambol, the leading provider of mobile
open source cloud sync and push email, today announced that its community
experienced record growth in the past few months, as developers and users
increasingly adopt open alternatives to proprietary sync and push email
software. In the past three months, Funambol's open source community
testing increased 2,000%, open source downloads grew 34% and active servers
increased 42%. Funambol's community continues to enhance the software's
interoperability with many systems, including Google apps, MS Exchange,
Android and Mozilla Thunderbird. Furthermore, Funambol's expansion into
mobile social networking has fueled significant developer interest and
activity.
Among the projects created by Funambol's developer community, AvatarGrabber
tops the charts as the most popular mobile open source social networking
app. Developed by Alfredo Morresi as part of Funambol's Code Sniper
community program, it enables Facebook, MySpace and other social network
profile pictures to automatically sync with mobile phones. As people change
their profile picture on a social network, their photo is updated in other
people's mobile phone address books.
"Our community is growing rapidly because in this economy, people are
increasingly turning to open source standards-based software that
interoperates with all major mobile phones and desktops," said Stefano
Maffulli, Funambol Community Manager. "Nobody wants to be locked into an
expensive proprietary sync service. Funambol is the Switzerland of mobile
sync and push email, it lets users easily switch phones, desktop apps and
webmail services while retaining their personal data."
Funambol's basis on open source provides the industry's broadest mobile
device compatibility, for billions of mobile phones. Its open source
software is backed by the world's largest mobile developer community, which
helps test Funambol software on thousands of smartphones and feature
phones. Funambol open source can be freely used for internal projects, as
well as rapidly translated into different languages.
About Funambol
Funambol is the leading provider of mobile open source cloud sync and push
email solutions. Funambol open source software has been downloaded over
three million times by 50,000 developers in more than 200 countries. The
commercial version of Funambol has been deployed at mobile operators,
portals, device manufacturers, service providers and ISVs including
customers such as AOL, 1&1, Earthlink and CA, Inc. Funambol is
headquartered in Redwood City, California with an R&D center in Italy. For
more information, please visit www.funambol.com. You can follow Funambol on
Twitter at http://twitter.com/funambol.