MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., February 25, 2009 — Appcelerator, Inc. a leading provider of open source technologies for building and managing rich web, desktop and mobile applications, today announced major upgrades to Titanium, an open source platform for building desktop applications using Web technologies. The major new features, which are being released as Titanium Preview Release 2 (PR2) are available immediately as a free download and include:

• Support for Linux;
• A Module API for extending the core Titanium platform;
• Support for application scripts written in Ruby, and Python;
• Seamless interoperability between C++, JavaScript, Ruby and Python.

“Linux is a first class citizen in Titanium,” said Jeff Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator. “In under three months, after the first release of Titanium, we were able to build out Linux support. This speed of innovation and execution demonstrates the benefit of Appcelerator’s use of open technologies and open collaboration within our community.”

Titaniumʼs new Module API makes it easy to extend the core Titanium platform by allowing Titanium Modules to be written in C++, JavaScript, Ruby or Python.  Additionally, Titanium supports writing application scripts in Python and Ruby, a job typically reserved only for JavaScript. These scripts can access Titanium Modules written in any of Titaniumʼs supported programming languages thanks to Titaniumʼs new and innovative cross-language binding layer. The extensibility provided by the new updates allow for an even wider range of developers to author Titanium extensions and build innovative desktop applications using common Web technologies.

“Our job is to empower developers,” said Nolan Wright, CTO of Appcelerator. “We recognize that most great ideas originate outside our four walls, so we felt it was not only important to make Titanium extensible, but to make extensibility and desktop application development open to as many programmers as possible. Our Module API and our support for Ruby and Python demonstrate our commitment to this vision.”

PR2 is also bundled with the new Titanium Developer product, a Titanium-based application that combines the power of the desktop with social media to deliver a more integrated way for Titanium developers to learn, engage and collaborate. The product offers developers Titanium-specific social content from Twitter and FriendFeed, and it provides a full IRC chat client that is directly tied-in to the Titanium Developer Channel.  Titanium Developer also provides a set of features focused on making it easy to create and manage Titanium-based projects.

Although launched only a few months ago, Titanium is already a popular open source platform for building desktop applications using traditional Web technologies, such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Titanium also supports applications built using Adobe Flash or Microsoft Silverlight as well as any third-party AJAX libraries such as jQuery or the Dojo Toolkit.

Titanium PR2 is freely available today for download at: http://titaniumapp.com/download.
Titanium is licensed under Apache Public License v2.

More information is available at:

• Titanium Home Page
• Source Code
• Screencasts
• Blog
• Twitter

About Appcelerator 

Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Appcelerator, Inc., develops and supports the leading Open Web platform for creating, packaging and deploying rich Web applications. Financially backed by leading Silicon Valley investor Storm Ventures and open source luminary Larry Augustin, Appceleratorʼs products allow developers to quickly and easily build applications using standard Web technologies that can be deployed to multiple platforms, including the desktop, the browser or the mobile device.  For more information, please visit: http://appcelerator.org/.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., December 9, 2008 — Appcelerator, Inc., a leading provider of open source technologies for building and managing rich Web applications, today announced the public preview release of Appcelerator Titanium™, an open source platform for building desktop and mobile applications using a common set of Web technologies.

Titanium allows developers to use standard Web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript to quickly and easily develop applications that can be deployed to multiple platforms, including the desktop, the browser or the mobile device. Unlike traditional Web applications, which are limited to operating within the browser, Titanium desktop applications are able to read and write local data on the desktop and interact with the operating system. In particular, Titanium enables developers to build desktop Web applications that can operate both online and offline.

“Developing for the desktop had shifted down in priority in recent years. But desktop development has recently picked up more interest as rich Internet application technologies have pulled down the web development experience to the desktop,” said Michael Coté, an industry analyst with RedMonk. “Increasingly, developers have the option to use known web frameworks to expand into a previously unreachable area, the desktop.”

Titanium is part of the growing group of open source communities that are working together to bring Web applications to the desktop. Titanium is built on top of a number of leading open source technologies including WebKit, Google Gears and Chromium. Titanium is designed to work on Windows, Mac, and Linux desktop operating systems. The Windows and Mac version of Titanium are available immediately and the Linux version will be available in January 2009. Titanium is distributed under the Apache Public License.

“Web applications have exploded because they are easy to build and distribute, but until now they have lacked the full feature set of native desktop applications,” said Jeff Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator. “Titanium enables a whole new generation of applications that use standard Web technologies to build rich desktop and mobile applications, which will ultimately push the boundaries of innovation. By providing an open source alternative, Titanium offers a solution for those who prefer open source for strategic reasons or want to extend the functionality of the Titanium platform to meet unique requirements.”

Key features include:

• Rapid development of production-level web and desktop applications -
• Native windowing,
• Direct file system access,
• Database integration,
• Local database storage,
• Desktop notifications,
• Application and system menu control,
• Geo-location, among others;
• Rapid packaging of native applications that result in easy Windows and Mac OS X installs;
• Ability to integrate web applications into the desktop environment with desktop technologies, including offline use and direct file system access;
• Proof of concept applications with full source code available, including a Twitter client and a contact manager. To download these use cases, please visit: http://titaniumapp.com/demos.

A preview release of Titanium is freely available today for download: http://titaniumapp.com/download.

More information is available at:

• Titanium Homepage
• FAQ
• Source code
• Product demo screencasts
• Titanium Community Site
• Appcelerator Blog
• Titanium Twitter
• Appcelerator Twitter

About Appcelerator

Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Appcelerator, Inc., develops and supports the leading Open Web platform for creating, packaging and deploying rich Web applications. Financially backed by leading Silicon Valley investor Storm Ventures and open source luminary Larry Augustin, Appcelerator’s products allow developers to quickly and easily build applications using standard Web technologies that can be deployed to multiple platforms, including the desktop, the browser or the mobile device. For more information, please visit: http://appcelerator.org/.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., December 9, 2008 — Appcelerator, Inc., a leading provider of open source technologies for building and managing rich Web applications, today announced it has secured $4.1 million in Series A funding, led by Storm Ventures. Appcelerator will use the proceeds to further advance and extend the functionality of its Open Web platform that allows applications to be quickly and easily built and deployed as a rich Web application, a native desktop application or a mobile application.

“Web applications are quickly evolving to rival the functionality users are accustomed to from desktop applications being produced by the world’s largest software companies,” said Ryan Floyd, managing partner at Storm Ventures. “With Appcelerator’s Open Web platform, we anticipate they will become a major provider of software development technologies used to build web, desktop and mobile applications.” 

Using Appcelerator’s SDK and Titanium, developers can reduce costs and realize dramatic productivity gains by leveraging an Open Web platform and an existing set of web skill sets, ultimately allowing developers to spend more time developing applications and getting them to market and less time building homegrown development platforms. Appcelerator’s products are freely distributed under the Apache Public License, enabling the platform to be easily extended through a wide range of plug-ins.

“We plan to use the investment to extend the Appcelerator SDK and Titanium platform to include the widest set of functionalities and be the most easily used rich Web application development products available to application developers,” said Jeff Haynie, Appcelerator CEO. 

Storm Venture managing partner, Ryan Floyd, will join Appcelerator co-founders Jeff Haynie and Nolan Wright on the Board of Directors. Larry Augustin, a premier open source angel investor and a member of the group who originally coined the term “open source” and also participated in the round, will join the board as well.

“By combining the strength of their open source community with the ingenuity of their Open Web technology, Appcelerator is primed to truly become the most widely deployed and used application development platform,” said Larry Augustin, open source luminary. 

For more information and to download the recently released Titanium, please visit: http://titaniumapp.com/. For the latest information on Appcelerator, please visit the blog: http://www.appcelerant.com/ or follow Appcelerator on Twitter: http://twitter.com/appcelerator.

About Appcelerator

Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Appcelerator, Inc., develops and supports the leading Open Web platform for creating, packaging and deploying rich Web applications.  Financially backed by leading Silicon Valley investor Storm Ventures and open source luminary Larry Augustin, Appcelerator’s products allow developers to quickly and easily build applications using standard Web technologies that can be deployed to multiple platforms, including the desktop, the browser or the mobile device. For more information, please visit: http://appcelerator.org/.

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The future of Web development lies in building Rich Internet Applications as true, standalone Web clients based on open standards such as HTML, Cascading Style Sheets and JavaScript that interact with the server side purely through Web services.  READ FULL ARTICLE

ATLANTA―June 4, 2008―Rob Bearden, the former chief operating officer of JBoss, has joined the advisory board of Appcelerator, strengthening the company’s aggressive charge into the rich Internet application market. Bearden is the sixth person with JBoss ties to join Appcelerator, whose platform helps companies quickly build Web-based applications with more functionality and less code.

“Rob’s 20-year track record of building rock-solid sales operations in the software industry will be a gold mine for Appcelerator as we ramp up operations and sales,” said Jeff Haynie, Appcelerator’s chief executive. “Rob’s addition to Appcelerator’s advisory board strengthens an already formidable team.”
Appcelerator is an open source Web platform that brings together RIA and service-oriented architecture.

Appcelerator enables developers to quickly assemble cross-platform, service-oriented user interfaces using the skills and technologies they’ve already invested in, and to standardize their development environments and software infrastructures.

With Appcelerator, developers can assemble rich, interactive Web applications without the need for JavaScript or player-based plug-ins.

Today’s announcement reinforces Appcelerator’s ties to JBoss, the open source middleware leader. Bearden joins JBoss Founder and former CEO Marc Fleury and open source pioneer Larry Augustin, a former JBoss director, on Appcelerator’s advisory board.

Bearden has built strong global sales organizations and operations in the software industry for two decades. Most recently, he was chief operating officer for OpenSpan, a desktop integration software provider. As chief operating officer for JBoss, he managed worldwide operations and played a key role in its acquisition by Red Hat Software (NYSE: RHT). Before JBoss, Bearden was president of the Americas at i2 Technologies, a supply chain software provider. He also spent six years in executive sales positions at Oracle.

“I’m looking forward to helping Appcelerator shake up the rich Internet application market,” said Bearden. “Companies are struggling with how to take advantage of all the money and time they’ve poured into SOA. Appcelerator answers the question once and for all by enabling them to build rich applications on top of that SOA infrastructure.”