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@hand and AppForge Join Forces to Deliver Mission-Critical Applications in Visual Basic for Palm OS Devices
URL(s): www.appforge.com
AUSTIN, Texas, April 11, 2001--
Partnership Enables Handheld Devices to Move Beyond Personal Information
Management to Higher ROI Applications and Functionality
@hand Corporation, the pioneer in mission-critical mobile software solutions for the enterprise, and AppForge(TM), Inc., the
only company that allows Microsoft Visual Basic(R) programmers to create applications for the Palm OS(R), today announced a
partnership to enable businesses and third-party software vendors to develop and deploy mission-critical Visual Basic solutions on
Palm OS devices.
The combined product offering will enable businesses and software vendors to quickly and easily deliver mobile workforce
solutions whether users are connected or disconnected from the network. This new offering will fully integrate with enterprise-wide
information systems in a secure and reliable manner.
"@hand and AppForge are first to announce a complete solution enabling the army of Visual Basic developers to deliver
mission-critical applications on a Palm OS device," stated Marc Lurie, CEO of @hand corporation. "@hand offers the industry's
first standards-based platform with the enterprise-wide integration and fully-functional disconnected capabilities required by
mission-critical mobile workers, such as those found in large transportation companies and utilities."
The integrated offering from @hand and AppForge will allow companies to streamline application initiatives by leveraging Visual
Basic developer skills across an array of Windows CE, Pocket PC and Palm OS devices. Rather than recruiting developers with
skills specific to a single platform, businesses will be able to accelerate their development schedules by relying on the existing
community of 3 million Visual Basic developers.
"Many of the 15,000 developers using AppForge are building applications to drive greater productivity and profits for leading
corporations," said Doug Armstrong, CEO of AppForge, Inc. "Our relationship with @hand addresses the challenges of enabling
these applications to operate while disconnected and to integrate with existing ERP, supply chain and CRM systems, as well as the
many other web-, client/server- and mainframe-based applications found in Fortune 1000 enterprises."
@hand will integrate into its core technology the upcoming version of AppForge's Professional Edition development platform, due
for release later in 2001. The two software companies plan to continue working together to support the needs of Visual Basic
developers deploying applications to Palm OS devices in large-scale, mission-critical enterprise environments.
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