Web and Mobile Developers Flock to Titanium to Build Native Apps for Multiple Platforms

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. – June 14, 2010 – Appcelerator®, the leading platform for rapidly developing native mobile and desktop applications using web technologies, today announced that it has grown its community to 50,000 web and mobile developers who are building thousands of rich, native applications for today’s most popular devices and platforms. The milestone comes just one year after Appcelerator announced the beta version of its Titanium mobile product. The company projects that it will exceed 100,000 developers by year-end.

"Clearly, developers were hungry for a development environment where they could easily leverage their existing web skills to quickly build fully native apps to run on many platforms," remarked Jeff Haynie, CEO at Appcelerator. "As the mobile market grows and new platforms emerge, Appcelerator will keep Titanium relevant, adding new features, fully leveraging the native capabilities of each platform, and expanding to support the most in-demand devices for helping developers reach their customers."

Appcelerator’s open source Titanium platform enables developers to build rich, native applications using web technologies for a range of devices and multiple platforms, including iPhone, Android, BlackBery for mobile, iPad, and desktop applications across PC, Mac, and Linux, with more platforms to come. Applications made with Titanium look, function and perform as fully native apps with native UI components, native code compilation, and native access to the device’s storage, multimedia, input, and geo-location APIs.

Titanium Tackles Fractured Market Opportunities

In a recent report, Gartner estimated consumers worldwide will download more than 20 billion applications in 2013, growing revenue to $30 billion by the end of that year. Developers are keeping pace with the market opportunities. Since releasing its newest version of Titanium in March, the company has seen the number of applications being built on its platform double.

Titanium developers are flocking to Appcelerator’s approach because it enables cross-platform development—necessary in today’s increasingly fractured mobile market—from a single codebase at web development speed, decreasing time-to-market and costs.

Appcelerator’s notable milestone comes on the heels of the company being named a "Cool Vendor" in Enterprise Mobility by Gartner, Inc. (Cool Vendors in Enterprise Mobility, Monica Basso et al, April 9, 2010.) Gartner’s 2010 Cool Vendor report recognizes "innovative vendors that may help adopters to pursue mobility objectives successfully."

Appcelerator also assists its developers with application packaging, app store submission, testing and runtime analytics. The latter benefits developers by identifying who is using the application and how they are navigating it, what features they are accessing and how usage evolves over time, providing insight that may help improve retention rates.

More information about Titanium is available at:

• Screencast: http://vimeo.com/8730218
• Company Blog: http://www.appcelerant.com
• Developer Center: http://developer.appcelerator.com
• Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/appcelerator

About Appcelerator

Appcelerator enables web developers, ad agencies, ISVs, and enterprises to take advantage of the explosive growth in mobile, desktop, and iPad applications. The company’s flagship offering, Titanium, is the only open source platform to enable cross-platform development, from a single codebase, at web development speed for these three platforms. Appcelerator’s customers can leverage their exiting skills and open, industry standard technologies to decrease time-to-market and development costs, increasing customer adoption and revenues, and enjoying greater flexibility and control. For more information, please visit www.appcelerator.com.

Appcelerator is a registered trademark of Appcelerator, Inc.  Appcelerator Titanium is a trademark of Appcelerator, Inc.

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Blackberry and Windows Phone’s Improved Capabilities Renew Developer Interest
Appcelerator Readies Titanium Tablet SDK for April 5 Launch

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. — Wednesday, March 31, 2010 — Appcelerator®, the leading platform for rapidly developing native mobile, desktop, and iPad applications using web technologies, announced updated findings of its Mobile Developer Survey taken of application developers about their plans to build applications for various mobile and tablet platforms. Taken last week from a pool of Appcelerator’s 33,000+ application developers, 1,028 developers responded about their plans to prioritize iPad development within an increasingly fragmented and competitive landscape. This survey is posted on www.appcelerator.com/mobile-developer-survey.

Below are the findings from the survey, which was taken as Appcelerator’s iPad beta concludes with a Titanium Tablet SDK officially rolling out on April 5, 2010. Titanium Tablet will enable web developers to build 100% native iPad applications using the skills they have today. The findings show that the mobile platform landscape has evolved significantly during this first quarter. While Apple interest remains high, Android is almost neck and neck with iPhone, and two other providers — RIM and Microsoft — have renewed interest from developers due to improvements to their platforms. Now, more than ever, companies considering mobile apps need to have a robust cross-platform strategy.

iPad Interest Remains Strong, Trumps Kindle 4-to-1

When Appcelerator first surveyed its developer base prior to Apple’s iPad announcement in January of this year, interest in the platform was overwhelmingly high. Fast forward two months, and interest remains strong, but off the wild enthusiasm in January: 80% of developers now say they are interested in building an iPad app within the first year compared to 90% in January. When asked about overall interest in iPad as a development platform, 53% responded that they were ‘very interested’ — third behind iPhone and Android. As a point of reference, Amazon Kindle, surveyed for the first time, has only 12% of developers claiming a similar level of interest in its recently announced SDK.

In follow-up interviews, Appcelerator found that moderating iPad interest was primarily due to a lack of a few features originally thought to be included in the iPad, such as a camera and support for multi-tasking. Moreover, developers with over 1,000 employees cited having an iPhone, Android, and/or Blackberry app as critical,’ while only 36% said they were very interested in the iPad. On the other end, 54% of developers with 10 or fewer employees said they were very interested, as small companies look to claim a first-mover advantage in the App Store.

As far as developer plans around iPad, respondents cited eBooks, entertainment and media applications, business applications, medical applications, and education applications as likely candidates for planned apps on Apple’s new device, consistent with January’s results.

Google, RIM, and Microsoft Heat Up the Mobile Platform Race

Increased competition among mobile platforms features a two-horse, tightening race between Android and iPhone. In January, 86% of developers were very interested in creating apps for the iPhone and 68% were very interested in doing so for Android — an 18 point spread. That spread has closed to just six points in the current survey (iPhone 87%, Android 81%, followed by iPad at 53%).

And while iPhone, Android and iPad are still the top application development candidates for developers, two platforms have made significant inroads with developers. Blackberry has doubled from 21% developer support in January to 43% in March, while Windows Phone has nearly tripled from 13% to 34%. Both vendors have announced major improvements to their device capabilities during the first quarter, which is clearly translating into market opportunity for developers. "I do mostly business applications, so the phones that are big in business are big with me," claimed one developer interested in both platforms.

Platforms on the Brink

On the other end of the spectrum are the mobile platforms in decline. Palm, at only 17% in January (but ahead of Windows), fell further to 14% saying they were very interested in the platform in March as financial troubles gave rise to developer concern. Meego — the newly branded effort by Nokia and Intel — came in at 12%, and Symbian at just 16%. One developer remarked that his priorities were driven by "marketplace success and how long the platform will be around."

Need for a Cross-Platform Strategy

With the race for first place tightening between iPhone and Android and with the showdown for the enterprise looming, the need for a short and long-term, cross-platform development solution has never been greater.

"Since January of this year, we’ve nearly doubled to over 33,000 large and small developers," noted Jeff Haynie, CEO, Appcelerator. "The consistent feedback that we hear is that developers are looking for a cross-platform solution without compromise — one that enables not only support for multiple platforms with increasing popularity, but native support for the user experiences that make each platform unique. The Appcelerator team is committed to supporting everything that makes the iPhone, Android, iPad, and soon Blackberry, popular devices. "

About Appcelerator

Appcelerator enables web developers, ad agencies, ISVs, and enterprises to take advantage of the explosive growth in mobile, desktop, and iPad applications. The company’s flagship offering, Titanium, is the only open source platform to enable cross-platform development, from a single codebase, at web development speed for these three platforms. Appcelerator’s customers can leverage their exiting skills and open, industry standard technologies to decrease time-to-market and development costs, increasing customer adoption and revenues, and enjoying greater flexibility and control. For more information, please visit www.appcelerator.com.

Appcelerator is a registered trademark of Appcelerator, Inc. Appcelerator Titanium is a trademark of Appcelerator, Inc.

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Six Leading Interactive Agencies, SIs and Web ISVs Sign on to Create Engaging Mobile Apps with Appcelerator’s Titanium Platform

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. – October 27, 2009 – Appcelerator^®, the leading platform for rapidly developing mobile, desktop, and web applications with web technologies, today announced its Partner Program for interactive ad agencies and systems integrators (SIs). This commercial offering provides the technology, training, and development support necessary to quickly and cost-effectively build iPhone, Android, netbook and desktop apps that leverage the native capabilities of these devices. Six leading interactive ad agencies, SIs and Web ISVs – including Cimex, Computer Sciences Corp (CSC), Intridea, Razorfish, TMA, and Tribal DDB – have already signed on to Appcelerator’s program.

These companies are responding to an exploding growth in demand for rich, highly engaging mobile app experiences.  Yankee Group estimates the number of smartphone users in the U.S. will grow four-fold to over 160 million by 2013, with an annual stampede of seven billion application downloads. Already, two billion applications have been downloaded just from Apple’s App Store; and Gartner is predicting Android shipments will surpass those of iPhone in two years. This explosion in demand, coupled with the rise of multiple mobile platforms, presents a daunting strategic challenge for application developers: how to support a broadening array of popular devices for the upcoming decade utilizing web skills built up over the past 10 years.

“Smartphone use is skyrocketing, as are mobile app downloads, and forward-thinking ad agencies and systems integrators must be prepared to reach consumers wherever they are, on multiple platforms, with compelling apps,” said Jeff Haynie, co-founder and CEO of Appcelerator. “Appcelerator’s Titanium platform enables interactive agencies and SIs to seamlessly add a mobile application component to their product portfolio so they can readily meet the needs of their clients. Using Titanium, they can capitalize on growing mobile app market demand across multiple platforms without the need to outsource development.  This ensures complete control of a client’s campaign or solution, rapid time-to-market, and a price tag that is a fraction of what it would cost to contract out development or build specific skill sets for every emerging platform.”

Zero to App: Launching a Mobile and Desktop App Business

Appcelerator’s partner program equips interactive agencies, SIs and web ISVs with everything they need to add mobile or desktop capabilities to round out their product offering. This includes sales and marketing support, access to the Appcelerator Network, early access to product releases, and the support and training necessary to build an application development business on Titanium.  Appcelerator can also provide intensive development assistance during a partner’s first project to ensure success in the first 30 days.

Extending Social Experiences to Mobile Campaigns

In addition to its Partner Program, Appcelerator has launched native support for social APIs, including Yahoo YQL, Facebook Connect and Twitter.  This is the first of many vertical solutions integrated with Titanium to facilitate easy access to popular web APIs, data and social graphs. These services are made more contextually relevant through their integration with native device capabilities such as geo-location, camera, video, storage, touch and accelerometer inputs.  Appcelerator will continue to build out additional solutions, including those for analytics and advertising, over the coming months. This will further enable its partners to develop compelling application experiences that bring the best of the web together with the native capabilities of each device.

Since Titanium released its beta version, more than 12,000 developers have leveraged the platform to create applications now published on the iPhone and Android app stores.  More information about Titanium is available at:

• Appcelerator Partner Program http://pages.appcelerator.com/partners.html
• Screencast: http://vimeo.com/5067085
• Technical blog: http://www.appcelerant.com/
• CEO blog: http://blog.jeffhaynie.us/
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/appcelerator

About Appcelerator

Appcelerator enables web developers, ad agencies, ISVs, and enterprises to take advantage of the explosive growth in mobile and desktop applications without delay.  The company’s flagship offering, Titanium, is the only open source platform to enable cross-platform development, from a single codebase, at web development speed.  Appcelerator’s customers can leverage their exiting skills and open, industry standard technologies to create and commercialize mobile, desktop, and Web apps from a single platform, decreasing time-to-market and development costs, increasing customer adoption and revenues, and enjoying greater flexibility and control. For more information, please visit www.appcelerator.com.

Appcelerator is a registered trademark of Appcelerator, Inc.  Appcelerator Titanium is a trademark of Appcelerator, Inc.

Titanium platform extension contributed by Titanium community member and Zend Certified Engineer Ben Ramsey

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. – October 22, 2009 – Today at the Zend PHP Conference 2009, Appcelerator^®, the leading platform for rapidly developing mobile, desktop, and web applications with web technologies, announced its support for building desktop and netbook applications with PHP.  Developers can now use PHP, JavaScript, Python, or Ruby to quickly build native PC, Macintosh, or Linux applications with the web skills they use today.

As netbooks, mobile phones, and devices in-between increase in popularity, extending the reach of applications beyond the browser becomes increasingly important.  Yet, learning a new language is time and cost prohibitive in most cases.  Applications built for the desktop or netbook using PHP on Appcelerator Titanium^TM provide the best of both worlds for developers: the performance, rich native experience, and offline capability of the desktop coupled with the speed and ubiquity of PHP development.

Seeing the opportunity for desktop and netbook app development, Titanium community member, Zend Certified Engineer, and software architect Ben Ramsey decided to lead the charge for integrating PHP, with Titanium.  Explains Ramsey, “I’ve been following Titanium development for over a year and it’s clear that Appcelerator’s approach in leveraging open, ubiquitous tools to create rich, native applications that communicate with web services is the future of not only web development, but cross-platform development in general. I’m pleased to help open up the Titanium platform to the broader PHP community.”

“The level of excitement around this release is tremendous.  We’re very thankful for Ben’s contribution to the project and we look forward to bringing application development to this large, diverse audience” said Jeff Haynie, CEO, Appcelerator.

Appcelerator community member Ed Finkler discussed Titanium during his presentation at ZendCon last night.  Appcelerator will also be demonstrating desktop development with PHP during ZendCon’s Unconference.

PHP developers can download Titanium from www.appcelerator.com and begin building applications immediately.  Titanium is licensed under the Apache license v2, so it’s free to use for both personal and commercial application development.

About Appcelerator

Appcelerator enables web developers, ad agencies, ISVs, and enterprises to take advantage of the explosive growth in mobile and desktop applications without delay.  The company’s flagship offering, Titanium, is the only open source platform to enable cross-platform development, from a single codebase, at web development speed.  Appcelerator’s customers can leverage their exiting skills and open, industry standard technologies to create and commercialize mobile, desktop, and Web apps from a single platform, decreasing time-to-market and development costs, increasing customer adoption and revenues, and enjoying greater flexibility and control. For more information, please visit www.appcelerator.com.

Appcelerator is a registered trademark of Appcelerator, Inc.  Appcelerator Titanium is a trademark of Appcelerator, Inc.

Web Developers Using Open Source Platform to Create New Class of Web-Connected Native Applications for iPhone and Android Devices

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. – July 16, 2009 – Appcelerator®, the only open source provider that enables developers to rapidly create mobile, desktop, and web applications from a single platform, today announced that – just one month after the beta release of its flagship Appcelerator Titanium™ platform – it has signed up 3,000 new developers, who are creating a variety of applications for the iPhone and Android mobile devices.

The Titanium platform enables web developers to leverage their deep knowledge of industry standard tools and technologies to easily and quickly create rich native applications that are connected to the web. Almost every Titanium-created mobile application uses web connectivity, leverages information from a customer datacenter or user base, and mixes in device-centric contextual functionality like geo-location or mobile file system access. The result is a new class of mobile applications unlike those seen in today’s app stores.

“The Titanium platform is opening the floodgates for the world’s millions of web developers to fuel the next wave of mobile app creation,” said Jeff Haynie, co-founder and CEO at Appcelerator.  “Today’s app stores are heavy on gaming and entertainment apps, with these categories making up 35% of Apple’s store.  Titanium-created applications are showing themselves to be quite different, with nearly 40% of applications under development either business, social networking, productivity or utility applications that exploit the web. This is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the depth and breadth of mobile applications web developers will bring to market.”

The top three categories in Appcelerator’s pipeline include:

• Utilities – (15%): including server monitoring, home management, budgeting, and barcode scanning applications
• Business – (14%): including mobile ports of existing SaaS-based enterprise apps, ERP, CRM, and onsite billing/quoting/invoicing applications
• Social Networking – (10%): including social aggregation, friend finder, job/employment, and Twitter applications

In a sign of the times, developers are also building apps that help job seekers, apps for saving money while on-the-go, and apps that help realtors promote their residential and commercial property, among others.

Before Titanium, developers looking to create new applications and services for mobile devices had to learn specific programming languages and build independently for each device platform.  Titanium has eliminated this hurdle, enabling  cross-platform development from a single codebase at web development speed, decreasing time-to-market and development costs for web developers, while enabling their applications to look, function and perform as fully native apps with native UI components, native code compilation, and native access to the device’s storage, multimedia, input and geo-location APIs.

Once the application has been built on Titanium, it can then be tested, packaged, distributed and analyzed through the Appcelerator Network, a cloud-based suite of services for commercializing Titanium-based applications. A built-in simulator tests performance on the device in real-time; the network wraps the application with the run-time code necessary to deploy on the selected platforms; the cloud service handles provisioning, certificates and profiles, then the app is shipped off with single-click distribution..

“With more use of unlimited data plans, people are no longer shy about using the full spectrum of wireless services,” commented Michael Cote, an analyst with RedMonk.  “This is driving web developers to apply the known skills in enterprise features and functionality to deliver mobile business applications, which pull together database, CRM, social media, and other data and workflow from both the public web and behind-the-firewall intranets.”

For more information about Titanium Mobile, please visit www.appcelerator.com/products/titanium-mobile. Titanium is licensed under Apache Public License v2.

More information about Titanium is available at:

• Screencast
• Technical blog
• CEO blog
• Twitter

About Appcelerator

Appcelerator enables web developers, ISVs, and enterprises to take advantage of the explosive growth in mobile and desktop applications without delay.  The company’s flagship offering, Titanium, is the only open source platform to enable cross-platform development, from a single codebase, at web development speed.  Appcelerator’s customers can leverage their exiting skills and open, industry standard technologies to create and commercialize mobile, desktop, and web apps from a single platform, decreasing time-to-market and development costs, increasing customer adoption and revenues, and enjoying greater flexibility and control. For more information, please visit www.appcelerator.com.

Appcelerator is a registered trademark of Appcelerator, Inc.  Appcelerator Titanium is a trademark of Appcelerator, Inc.

Titanium beta release now offers an integrated platform for creating, testing and commercializing mobile and desktop applications on a single platform

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. – June 8, 2009 - Appcelerator®, a leading provider of open source technologies for developing, testing, and commercializing mobile, desktop, and web applications, today announced the availability of the beta version of its flagship Appcelerator Titanium^TM platform. The beta update includes new mobile functionality that allows developers to use the Web capabilities they already have to develop rich applications for both iPhone^TM and Android^TM mobile devices.

As customers increasingly look to more functional devices to stay connected and informed, developers must be able to quickly adjust to the demands of the new platforms required to serve these users. Titanium addresses this need by delivering a single platform for mobile, desktop, and web development. Once built with Titanium, applications can be tested, packaged, distributed and analyzed through Appcelerator Network, a cloud-based suite of services for commercializing Titanium-based applications.

“The smartphone market is set to grow by a CAGR of 19.5%, through to 2014 and smartphone’s will account for 29% of the total global handset market. This represents a huge opportunity for both mobile and web application developers to address this rapidly growing market,” said Adam Leach, principal analyst with Ovum.

With the introduction of Titanium beta, Web developers that lack Objective-C or Java knowledge – the two languages currently required for iPhone and Android development – can still create native apps quickly and easily using the JavaScript, HTML and CSS knowledge they already have. Apps made with Titanium look, function and perform as fully native apps with native UI components, native code compilation, and native access to the device’s storage, multimedia, input, and geo-location APIs.

“Consumers are devouring mobile applications as fast as developers can create them, but the real mobile tidal wave will hit when millions of Web developers are able to write mobile applications without having to learn a new programming language,” said Jeff Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator. “Our commitment is to ensure that Web developers are in the driver’s seat when it comes to taking advantage of these new market opportunities.”

The new mobile component of Titanium rounds out Appcelerator’s complete beta solution, which the company has reached just two months after the latest desktop release. Appcelerator first announced the availability of Titanium in Q4 of last year, allowing developers, for the first time, to use a common set of Web technologies to build desktop applications that have the richness of Web content with the performance and capabilities of traditional desktop applications. By using open source and open standards, Appcelerator became the first company to democratize the development process for building applications and offer developers real choice. In addition to supporting traditional Web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript, Titanium supports applications developed using Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, or any third-party AJAX library, on Mac OS, Windows, Linux, Android or iPhone platforms.

Appcelerator will be showcasing the beta release of Titanium and its new mobile features at the “Titanium Beta Launch Party” on Tuesday, June 9 after Apple’s WWDC from 6 to 9 PM at Jillian’s in San Francisco. For more information about the party, please visit: http://bit.ly/5YAv.

For more information about Titanium beta’s availability please visit: http://titaniumapp.com/download. Titanium is licensed under Apache Public License v2.

More information about Titanium is available at:

• Titanium Home Page
• Screencast
• Technical blog
• CEO blog
• Twitter

About Appcelerator

Appcelerator empowers millions of the world’s Web developers to create, test, and commercialize native mobile and desktop applications. The company’s investors include by Storm Ventures and industry luminary Larry Augustin. For more information, please visit: http://appcelerator.com.

Trademarks: Appcelerator is a registered trademark of Appcelerator, Inc. Appcelerator Titanium is a trademark of Appcelerator, Inc. iPhone is a trademark of Apple, Inc. Android is a trademark of Google, Inc. Third party marks and brands are property of their respective holders.

Appcelerator Expands Titanium Capabilities with Linux Support, an Extensibility API, and Brings Ruby and Python to Desktop Applications

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., February 25, 2009 — Appcelerator, Inc. a leading provider of open source technologies for building and managing rich web, desktop and mobile applications, today announced major upgrades to Titanium, an open source platform for building desktop applications using Web technologies. The major new features, which are being released as Titanium Preview Release 2 (PR2) are available immediately as a free download and include:

• Support for Linux;
• A Module API for extending the core Titanium platform;
• Support for application scripts written in Ruby, and Python;
• Seamless interoperability between C++, JavaScript, Ruby and Python.

“Linux is a first class citizen in Titanium,” said Jeff Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator. “In under three months, after the first release of Titanium, we were able to build out Linux support. This speed of innovation and execution demonstrates the benefit of Appcelerator’s use of open technologies and open collaboration within our community.”

Titaniumʼs new Module API makes it easy to extend the core Titanium platform by allowing Titanium Modules to be written in C++, JavaScript, Ruby or Python. Additionally, Titanium supports writing application scripts in Python and Ruby, a job typically reserved only for JavaScript. These scripts can access Titanium Modules written in any of Titaniumʼs supported programming languages thanks to Titaniumʼs new and innovative cross-language binding layer. The extensibility provided by the new updates allow for an even wider range of developers to author Titanium extensions and build innovative desktop applications using common Web technologies.

“Our job is to empower developers,” said Nolan Wright, CTO of Appcelerator. “We recognize that most great ideas originate outside our four walls, so we felt it was not only important to make Titanium extensible, but to make extensibility and desktop application development open to as many programmers as possible. Our Module API and our support for Ruby and Python demonstrate our commitment to this vision.”

PR2 is also bundled with the new Titanium Developer product, a Titanium-based application that combines the power of the desktop with social media to deliver a more integrated way for Titanium developers to learn, engage and collaborate. The product offers developers Titanium-specific social content from Twitter and FriendFeed, and it provides a full IRC chat client that is directly tied-in to the Titanium Developer Channel. Titanium Developer also provides a set of features focused on making it easy to create and manage Titanium-based projects.

Although launched only a few months ago, Titanium is already a popular open source platform for building desktop applications using traditional Web technologies, such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Titanium also supports applications built using Adobe Flash or Microsoft Silverlight as well as any third-party AJAX libraries such as jQuery or the Dojo Toolkit.

Titanium PR2 is freely available today for download at: http://titaniumapp.com/download.

Titanium is licensed under Apache Public License v2.

More information is available at:

• Titanium Home Page
• Source Code
• Screencasts
• Blog
• Twitter

About Appcelerator

Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Appcelerator, Inc., develops and supports the leading Open Web platform for creating, packaging and deploying rich Web applications. Financially backed by leading Silicon Valley investor Storm Ventures and open source luminary Larry Augustin, Appceleratorʼs products allow developers to quickly and easily build applications using standard Web technologies that can be deployed to multiple platforms, including the desktop, the browser or the mobile device. For more information, please visit: http://appcelerator.org/.

Growth of rich Internet applications drives new investment in technology to build and manage browser, desktop and mobile applications

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., December 9, 2008 — Appcelerator, Inc., a leading provider of open source technologies for building and managing rich Web applications, today announced it 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 quickly and easily built and deployed as a rich Web application, a native desktop application or a mobile application.

“Web applications are quickly evolving to rival the functionality users are accustomed to from desktop applications being produced by the world’s largest software companies,” said Ryan Floyd, managing partner at Storm Ventures. “With Appcelerator’s Open Web platform, we anticipate they will become a major provider of software development technologies used to build web, desktop and mobile applications.”

Using Appcelerator’s SDK and Titanium, developers can reduce costs and realize dramatic productivity gains by leveraging an Open Web platform and an existing set of web skill sets, ultimately allowing developers to spend more time developing applications and getting them to market and less time building homegrown development platforms. Appcelerator’s products are freely distributed under the Apache Public License, enabling the platform to be easily extended through a wide range of plug-ins.

“We plan to use the investment to extend the Appcelerator SDK and Titanium platform to include the widest set of functionalities and be the most easily used rich Web application development products available to application developers,” said Jeff Haynie, Appcelerator CEO.

Storm Venture managing partner, Ryan Floyd, will join Appcelerator co-founders Jeff Haynie and Nolan Wright on the Board of Directors. Larry Augustin, a premier open source angel investor and a member of the group who originally coined the term “open source” and also participated in the round, will join the board as well.

“By combining the strength of their open source community with the ingenuity of their Open Web technology, Appcelerator is primed to truly become the most widely deployed and used application development platform,” said Larry Augustin, open source luminary.

For more information and to download the recently released Titanium, please visit: http://titaniumapp.com/. For the latest information on Appcelerator, please visit the blog: http://www.appcelerant.com/ or follow Appcelerator on Twitter: http://twitter.com/appcelerator.

About Appcelerator

Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Appcelerator, Inc., develops and supports the leading Open Web platform for creating, packaging and deploying rich Web applications. Financially backed by leading Silicon Valley investor Storm Ventures and open source luminary Larry Augustin, Appcelerator’s products allow developers to quickly and easily build applications using standard Web technologies that can be deployed to multiple platforms, including the desktop, the browser or the mobile device. For more information, please visit: http://appcelerator.org/.

The open source platform advances ease of use, functionality, and innovation for application development

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., December 9, 2008 — Appcelerator, Inc., a leading provider of open source technologies for building and managing rich Web applications, today announced the public preview release of Appcelerator Titanium™, an open source platform for building desktop and mobile applications using a common set of Web technologies.

Titanium allows developers to use standard Web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript to quickly and easily develop applications that can be deployed to multiple platforms, including the desktop, the browser or the mobile device. Unlike traditional Web applications, which are limited to operating within the browser, Titanium desktop applications are able to read and write local data on the desktop and interact with the operating system. In particular, Titanium enables developers to build desktop Web applications that can operate both online and offline.

“Developing for the desktop had shifted down in priority in recent years. But desktop development has recently picked up more interest as rich Internet application technologies have pulled down the web development experience to the desktop,” said Michael Coté, an industry analyst with RedMonk. “Increasingly, developers have the option to use known web frameworks to expand into a previously unreachable area, the desktop.”

Titanium is part of the growing group of open source communities that are working together to bring Web applications to the desktop. Titanium is built on top of a number of leading open source technologies including WebKit, Google Gears and Chromium. Titanium is designed to work on Windows, Mac, and Linux desktop operating systems. The Windows and Mac version of Titanium are available immediately and the Linux version will be available in January 2009. Titanium is distributed under the Apache Public License.

“Web applications have exploded because they are easy to build and distribute, but until now they have lacked the full feature set of native desktop applications,” said Jeff Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator. “Titanium enables a whole new generation of applications that use standard Web technologies to build rich desktop and mobile applications, which will ultimately push the boundaries of innovation. By providing an open source alternative, Titanium offers a solution for those who prefer open source for strategic reasons or want to extend the functionality of the Titanium platform to meet unique requirements.”

Key features include:

• Rapid development of production-level web and desktop applications -

• Native windowing,

• Direct file system access,

• Database integration,

• Local database storage,

• Desktop notifications,

• Application and system menu control,

• Geo-location, among others;

• Rapid packaging of native applications that result in easy Windows and Mac OS X installs;

• Ability to integrate web applications into the desktop environment with desktop technologies, including offline use and direct file system access;

• Proof of concept applications with full source code available, including a Twitter client and a contact manager. To download these use cases, please visit: http://titaniumapp.com/demos.

A preview release of Titanium is freely available today for download: http://titaniumapp.com/download.

More information is available at:

• Titanium Homepage

• FAQ

• Source code

• Product demo screencasts

• Titanium Community Site

• Appcelerator Blog

• Titanium Twitter

• Appcelerator Twitter

About Appcelerator

Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Appcelerator, Inc., develops and supports the leading Open Web platform for creating, packaging and deploying rich Web applications. Financially backed by leading Silicon Valley investor Storm Ventures and open source luminary Larry Augustin, Appcelerator’s products allow developers to quickly and easily build applications using standard Web technologies that can be deployed to multiple platforms, including the desktop, the browser or the mobile device. For more information, please visit: http://appcelerator.org/.