Odyssey Software today shipped ViaXML(TM) for Palm OS(R), enabling direct access to enterprise data from the Palm OS platform via open standard XML-based mobile web services technology. Rather than rely on limited browser-based or proprietary platform technologies - which have failed to deliver effective interaction with enterprise data for mobile and wireless applications - developers can now implement powerful distributed enterprise applications with true interoperability among a wide range of mobile, desktop, and server-class platforms.
ViaXML supports both online and disconnected applications - over virtually any IP-based network, including Wireless LAN standards such as 802.11b, Wireless WAN networks such as CDPD, GSM, GPRS and Palm.Net(R), as well as direct dial-up and cradle connections - so that mobile workers can maximize their productivity and quality of decision-making.
A ViaXML-enabled application delivers today on the promise of interoperability, completely synergistic with the Microsoft .NET platform, and other web service strategies powered by IBM, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems. Seamless direct Peer-to-Peer interoperability (Palm Powered(TM) and Handspring handheld computers may directly call Pocket PCs, desktops, and servers), is immediately available to developers of today's mobile applications. Support for other platforms and message formats will be available directly from Odyssey Software later in calendar 2001.
"Odyssey's ViaXML enterprise data access infrastructure has the potential to transform the way developers build mobile enterprise applications for the Palm OS platform", said Todd Bradley, executive vice president and chief operating officer for Palm, Inc. "Developers can now transform existing corporate web infrastructure into mobile application servers that deliver immediate highly scalable interactive access to enterprise knowledge from Palm Powered handheld computers. Interfaces can now easily happen with data managed by SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, and DB/2 and business logic managed by corporate applications such as SAP/R3, Siebel, Baan, and PeopleSoft."
"The value of platform interoperability to our customers is significant," Keith Kanneg, Senior Director of Software Marketing at Symbol Technologies. "ViaXML is ideal for a broad range of customers across many markets, looking to dramatically simplify mobile device integration with diverse enterprise data stores or applications such as SAP/R3, or legacy systems - the market is demanding a strong solution for enterprise integration and Odyssey Software has delivered."
"Using ViaXML, IT professionals no longer need a host of software servers to enable effective mobile enterprise computing," said Mark Gentile, president and CEO of Odyssey Software. "With ViaXML we have embraced the leading mobile PDA platforms - the Palm OS platform and Pocket PC - as well as open Internet standards, to leverage investments that companies have made in Internet architectures and infrastructure, while revolutionizing the ways in which mobile and wireless technologies can be effectively used."
ViaXML for the Palm OS platform, Pocket PC, and Windows CE is available immediately from Odyssey Software. Free thirty-day evaluation licenses for ViaXML are available from http://www.odysseysoftware.com/ and further information - as well as deployment licenses - is available from info@odysseysoftware.com
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