We’ve learned exclusively that Appcelerator, an open source platform for building and managing rich web, desktop and mobile applications, has acquired fellow development environment Aptana. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Aptana offers web application development tools with support for a variety of programming languages, including JavaScript, Ruby, PHP and Python. Aptana’s main products are Aptana Studio, Aptana Cloud and Aptana Jaxer. The startup offers an end-to-end developer platform including development, testing, deployment, distribution, and the ability to edit, and debugg.
Appcelerator, which has raised a total of $15.2 million in funding (eBay is a strategic investor), offers a cross-platform development environment for over 10,000 native iOS, Android and desktop applications. Specifically, Appcelerator develops Titanium, an open-source developer platform meant to compete with Adobe AIR and the likes for building rich internet, mobile and desktop applications.
The addition of Aptana brings development tools to Appcelerator’s platform to offer a more complete environment for mobile, web, tablet, and desktop applications. The company says that the two web development communities gives Appcelerator a combined developer base of 1.5 million developers worldwide. And Appcelerator, which is apparently in the midst of another acquisition, says that it is poised to become one of the largest mobile app publishers in Apple’s App Store this quarter.
Appcelerator is the leading enterprise-grade, cross-platform development solution on the market today, with over 1.6 million developers using its software to power over 30,000 cloud-connected mobile, desktop, and web applications used on 30 million devices every day. The company’s flagship offering, Appcelerator Titanium, is the only mobile cloud platform to enable fully native, cross-platform mobile app and HTML5 web development, from a single codebase. Appcelerator’s customers can leverage their existing skills and open, industry standard technologies to decrease time-to-market...
Aptana provides a Web application development, deployment and management suite for organizations who use Web technologies including: JavaScript (Ajax), Ruby on Rails, and PHP. Aptana Studioâ„¢, an Eclipse-based integrated development environment for Web 2.0 sites and applications, has been downloaded over 4 million times and continues to grow at a rate of over 200,000 downloads monthly. Aptana’s current cloud offering, Aptana Cloudâ„¢, further integrates Web application development, deployment, and management with cloud computing services to provide an efficient end-to-end...
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