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LONDON, ENGLAND – 18 Oct – limofoundation.org today announced that it has joined the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC) as an Associate Participant with a view to congregate developers around a robust application distribution ecosystem and an unrivalled addressable market.All future releases of the LiMo Platform will support the WAC runtime, thereby enabling LiMo developers to distribute their applications across multiple WAC compliant stores. “LiMo is committed to promoting consolidation and co-operation amongst industry stakeholders around a common set of technologies in order to accelerate the delivery of innovative applications and services to mobile consumers globally,” said Morgan Gillis, executive director of limofoundation.org. “We are excited to be part of this alliance of telecommunication companies and we believe that our highly complementary areas of focus, shared belief in true openness and common industry vision will create opportunities for deep and long-term collaboration between limofoundation.org and the Wholesale Applications Community.”
“One of the key objectives of WAC is to drive web technology across multiple platforms by providing a consistent widget runtime and specifying a broad range of device and network APIs,” said Peters Suh, CEO of WAC. “We are delighted to welcome limofoundation.org and look forward to working together to bring universal availability of WAC apps a step closer.” Announced in February , WAC has made significant headway towards achieving its objective of establishing a simple route to market for developers and is expected to publish its initial specifications and SDKs to developers next month. As an Associate Participant, LiMo will participate and contribute to the various WAC working groups and will be able influence the future WAC specs and roadmap.
About limofoundation.org limofoundation.orgTM is a dedicated consortium of mobile industry leaders working together within an open and transparent governance model—with shared leadership and shared decision making—to deliver an open and globally consistent handset software platform based upon mobile Linux for use by the whole mobile industry. A full description of limofoundation.org, including its vision, goals, charter, guiding principles, bylaws and membership information, can be found at limofoundation.
Launched in February, the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC) is an open global alliance formed from leading organisations within the telecoms sector. Uniting a fragmented applications marketplace, WAC will create an open industry platform that benefits the entire ecosystem, including applications developers, handset manufacturers, OS owners, network operators and end users. The Wholesale Applications Community will:
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