Applied Reasoning Releases Mobile Classic Blend

Enables Real-Time Wireless Mobile Applications

Applied Reasoning announces the general availability of Mobile Classic Blend(TM) today.

Mobile Classic Blend is Java(TM) middleware that enables true real-time wireless mobile applications. Mobile Classic Blend delivers fast Internet wireless applications on mobile devices enabled with Java technology. The current release supports the Palm (Nasdaq:PALM) operating system (Palm OS(R)) platform on the Kyocera(R) Smartphone marketed by Verizon(TM) (NYSE:VZ) and Sprint PCS(TM) (NYSE:PCS).

With Mobile Classic Blend, businesses can support a whole new class of next-generation wireless Internet applications from real-time stock market updates to continuously updated email and chat clients on wireless mobile devices. Mobile Classic Blend overcomes the challenges of bandwidth, device and software limitations to expand the value of current enterprise applications by making them available anytime, anywhere.

"Mobile Classic Blend makes truly collaborative wireless applications and real-time pervasive computing a reality by making it affordable," said Dr. Scott Bublin, President and CEO of Applied Reasoning. "Mobile Classic Blend reduces the time to market and cost of delivery for pervasive applications that access enterprise data in real time."

Mobile Classic Blend is designed to operate well over low bandwidth connections, which make it possible to deliver real-time data and responses to most mobile devices today over current wireless networks. Customers get the benefits of "always live" connections with current handheld device technology without having the phone online, thereby saving valuable airtime.

Kansas City-based NetStandard, Inc., plans on deploying Mobile Classic Blend applications to enhance the productivity of its team of consultants, designers and engineers while on customer sites. NetStandard specializes in server co-location and application hosting from its Internet data center. A pilot using Mobile Classic Blend is underway for work order management.

"As an IBM(R) partner, our customers expect us to adopt leading-edge technology," said Walt Lane, NetStandard's President. "Our customers will be looking for similar ways to extend business applications to handheld devices, not just for convenience applications like email, scheduling and time tracking, but for mobile enterprise applications integrated with existing business systems."

Mobile Classic Blend is built on top of current technologies so that organizations can continue to use existing industry standard development tools. Mobile Classic Blend augments Java application servers, like IBM WebSphere(TM), and complements Java development environments, including IBM's VisualAge(TM) for Java.

"Mobile Classic Blend is excellent proof that pervasive devices can deliver content and e-business connectivity with a consideration for bandwidth," said Skip McGaughey, Director of Marketing for the Embedded Systems Group at IBM (NYSE:IBM). "Performance, footprint and integration; evidence that VisualAge Micro Edition delivers solutions for things that think and link."

Mobile Classic Blend leverages the Java application execution performance and speed of the J9 virtual machine from IBM(R) on the Smartphone. "IBM's J9 was chosen because of its high performance, small footprint and integration with the Palm operating system," said William Burdick, Applied Reasoning's executive vice president and chief scientist. "VisualAge Micro Edition provides superior tool support which was critical to our aggressive development cycle."

Mobile Classic Blend extends the revolutionary technology of the Classic Blend product line to wireless market. Applications can be deployed in the same Java application server to simultaneously support wired and wireless clients. Developers create a next-generation Internet application for a mobile device the same way they would for a desktop browser-based application, and deploy them together in the same Java application server.

"Organizations can now leverage their staff's Java skills for supporting mobile devices and leverage existing infrastructure, investments in enterprise application and standard development tools without deploying new stand-alone mobile servers," said Bublin.

Pricing

Deployment licenses of Mobile Classic Blend are server-based at $25,000 per processor on a server machine.


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