Recently wanted to look up the progress of MEAP (Mobile Enterprise Application Platform) software and if there are any stable open source releases of such platforms.
Possible Open source Candidates :
OpenMEAP
Convertigo
There has been some Questions on the Future of MEAP and its viability. The main issue here is how do you create a cross-platform (developed for one but can work on another) MEAP application.
Every application developed and deployed for a MEAP setup is married to it for life. If you intend to discontinue the vendor, you just cannot do it at the drop of a hat. Thats when the porting market would open up. Which means porting the app-set developed for one MEAP setup into another.
A combination of HTML5+JavaScript+Standard Framworks = Prevention of Vendor lock-in or technology lock-in for that mattar !
Other (non-open source) Candidates :
AnyPresence
Disclaimer : This is an In-Progress article.
Possible Open source Candidates :
OpenMEAP
Convertigo
There has been some Questions on the Future of MEAP and its viability. The main issue here is how do you create a cross-platform (developed for one but can work on another) MEAP application.
Every application developed and deployed for a MEAP setup is married to it for life. If you intend to discontinue the vendor, you just cannot do it at the drop of a hat. Thats when the porting market would open up. Which means porting the app-set developed for one MEAP setup into another.
A combination of HTML5+JavaScript+Standard Framworks = Prevention of Vendor lock-in or technology lock-in for that mattar !
Other (non-open source) Candidates :
AnyPresence
Disclaimer : This is an In-Progress article.
Yes I do believe that OpenSource MEAPs avoids vendor lock-in, if you disagree with the vendor's policy, you can still fork your own version of the MEAP.
ReplyDeleteBe carefull about the licences tough,