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techcrunch.com - 12/9/2008

Appcelerator Raises $4.1 Million for Open Source RIA Platform

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Mountain View-based startup Appcelerator has raised $4.1 million in a Series A round led by Storm Ventures . The money will go primarily towards the development of an open source competitor to Adobe AIR , which enables web developers to create applications that look and function more like ...

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blogs.zdnet.com - 12/9/2008

Appcelerator launching open source AIR competitor

— blogs.zdnet.com — Appcelerator has launched an open source competitor to Adobe’s AIR , called Titanium , aimed at helping... developers build Web technology into desktop applications. Appcelerator has also brought in new capital and begun collaborating with ... (more) Appcelerator launching open source AIR competitor

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sys-con.com - 12/9/2008

Appcelerator Secures $4.1 Million in Series A Venture Funding

— sys-con.com — Appcelerator has secured $4.1 million in Series A funding, led by Storm Ventures. Appcelerator will use the... proceeds to further advance and extend the functionality of its Open Web platform that allows applications to be easily built and deployed as a ... (more) Appcelerator Secures $4.1 Million in Series A Venture ...

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ostatic.com - 12/9/2008

New Funding for Appcelerator and Jaspersoft

— ostatic.com — Despite the dire economic times, funding continues to flow toward open source. Appcelerator , which has an... open platform for building web, desktop and mobile applications, has announced that it has received $4.1 million in Series A venture funding . ... (more) New Funding for Appcelerator and Jaspersoft

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Appcelerator launching open source AIR competitor
Open Source — Appcelerator has launched an open source competitor to Adobe’s AIR, called Titanium, aimed at helping developers build Web technology into desktop applications. Appcelerator has also brought in new capital and begun collaborating with SpringSource as it continues to make progress following a move from Atlanta to Mountain View earlier this year. I caught up with CEO Jeff Hainey yesterday, who said “we were able to do more in a day here than in a month from Atlanta,” which is why the company ...

Yet another open source RIA tool
Open Source — TIBCO has made its General Interface open source and it is now available for download. This comes just weeks after Adobe brought its AIR tool to Linux, and less than two months after Ariba took its AribaWeb open source and Sun called its JavaFX the fastest growing RIA tool in the market. How many such tools do we need? Appcelerator, created in 2007 to commercialize its open source RIA tools, raised $4.1 million to bring its AIR competitor to market in December. It’s true that, when Rich Internet Application technologies like AJAX first emerged, the tools for creating such files left something ...