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Team on 30 January 2004
Startup to transform mobile software
deployment
A new company is to be launched at 3GSM with a mission to transform the way software is integrated, validated and deployed for mobile handsets.
A new company is to be launched at 3GSM with a mission to transform the way software is integrated, validated and deployed for mobile handsets Founded in 2002, Open-Plug has completed an initial funding round giving the company more than $4.5 million to take its mobile software development platform to market
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 14 Feb 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Based in Sophia-Antipolis, France, Open-Plug is offering its FlexibleWare Suite, a framework that enables software developers, chipset and handset makers and network operators to reduce the design time and cost of developing and managing mobile device software, while opening standard platforms to easy addition of new features.
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"Everyone in the mobile market value-chain is under pressure to get attractive new features and services into the marketplace quickly and at low cost, without compromising firmware stability", said Baissus.
"Open-Plug has been formed to make this possible on mass market mobile terminal platforms, even with rapidly increasing complexity taken into account".
"We believe Open-Plug's FlexibleWare technology will significantly change how mobile phone software is developed", commented Michel Faure from Siparex.
"The integration and validation process is significantly simplified, cutting development cost and integration time.
Chipset and phone makers are for the first time provided with the flexibility to quickly address new market trends and operators customisation demands, at production level as well as via field download".
The FlexibleWare technology has been especially designed to apply on both standard code and Java.
"Java was believed to be the solution for maintenance and application upgrades, but it has just created a significant need to maintain and continuously upgrade any software component on the phone, reaching from codecs, graphic functions to security applications", said Nicolas Landrin from T-Source.
"Open-Plug had the vision and the unique expertise to address this challenge with its FlexibleWare technology first, which leverages Java but does not stop there".
The FlexibleWare suite consists of the FlexibleWare tools and the FlexibleWare framework (a small embedded engine running on the phone).
The tool suite includes a SDK for software developers.
The SDK supports proprietary API's as well as open APIs (Linux/Java).
The suite also turns any type of software at object code level into isolated executable components, which then run on top of a small engine integrated on the phone's processor.
This not only makes configuration of new handset designs fast, easy and cost-effective, but also allows upgrades to be distributed to groups or individual users in the field without compromising firmware stability.
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