Since Aether Systems Inc. and 3Com Corp. formed OpenSky Inc. in June, the joint venture has generated considerable interest and support from industry players.
At last week’s PalmSource ’99 conference in Santa Clara, Calif., the company added several new key development partners in the areas of content, applications, technology and hardware-adding momentum to its goal of providing remote enterprise access solutions to the mobile user.
The companies include AvantGo Inc., JP Systems, Novatel Wireless Inc., Riverbed Technologies, Synergy Solutions Inc. and TNG Products Inc.
AvantGo will provide its more than 300 channels of content and interactive services through its client software. JP Systems will add its One-Touch Mail e-mail program that allows users to retrieve messages from almost any Internet service provider, as well as wireless integration of other Palm applications for use with OpenSky’s services.
Novatel said it will provide a customer-developed wireless Internet protocol wireless modem similar to its existing Minstrel product. Riverbed Technologies Inc. licensed its ScoutIT mobile device management and synchronization software.
Synergy Solutions brings its Launch ‘Em “drag-and-drop” user interface software to the effort, while TRG Products said it will provide customer installation software to ensure an easy and fast process to get OpenSky customers on the service.
OpenSky licenses the Palm Computing Platform for the first implementation of its services, using Palm’s Web clipping technology to access the Internet. Founding partner Aether Systems brings its AIM middleware support for specific content access and e-commerce abilities.
