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OpenPlug Type subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent[1] Industry Software Founded 2002 Headquarters Sophia Antipolis, France Key people Eric Baissus CEO Products mobile applications development tools, software for mobile phones Revenue €2.749 million (2008)[2] Employees 39[2] Website www.openplug.com OpenPlug is a French company focused on mobile applications development tools and software for mobile phones. The company was founded in August 2002 by Eric Baissus and David Lamy-Charrier. Before OpenPlug, they were in charge of the reference software solution for Texas Instruments 2G and 2.5 product lines.
Alcatel-Lucent announced[3] it had acquired OpenPlug on September, 1 2010.
OpenPlug has developed several mobile software technology products and development tools aimed at mobile phone OEMs, ODMs and chipset vendors as well as mobile application developers. OpenPlug also provides professional services in the above areas.
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Products
ELIPS Studio is a cross-platform development environment (SDK) for native mobile applications. ELIPS Studio is provided as plugin to Adobe Systems’ Flex Builder IDE that allows compilation of Applications developed in Actionscript and MXML using Adobe’s Flex framework into native code and installable application packages for iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile and Symbian devices[4][5]. It also offers Actionscript APIs for accessing a smartphone’s on-device features and extra APIs for displaying native GUI widgets[6]. ELIPS Studio was first unveiled at the Mobile World Congress show in February 2009[4] and its beta programme was started at Adobe MAX in October 2009[7][8]. ELIPS Studio is available as a commercial product since August 2010[9].
ELIPS Stack is a 3G cellular telephony stack designed to be integrated into Linux-based mobile devices, such as Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), smartphones, netbooks. It includes all the middleware necessary for telephony applications and User Interface to make use of a 3G radio modem, such as: voice call, video call, SMS, MMS. It includes a 3G-324M video call stack from ENEA AB[10]. A smartphone reference design based on Intel’s Moorestown processor with the moblin OS and including ELIPS Stack has been shown at the CES 2010 show by Aavamobile[11][12][13].
ELIPS Suite is a Man-Machine Interface (MMI) software stack implementing a reference User Interface and middleware for 2G and 3G feature phones. It also integrates a range of optional 3rd-party modules such as: Java ME JVM from Myriad Group (formerly Esmertec[14]), WAP browser and MMS stack from Comviva (formerly Jataayu Software[15][16]), predictive text input method engine and complex script renderer from Nuance Communications (following acquisitions of Zi Corp and nCore[17][18][19]), SyncML stack from Sybase iAnywhere[20], OMA DRM from Safenet (following the acquisition of BeepScience[21]), amongst others. ELIPS Suite is supplied with an SDK plugin for Microsoft Visual Studio that includes a mobile phone simulator. The ELIPS Suite SDK exposes C APIs like POSIX and Gtk and provides an application framework that enforces a component-based software development model optimized for the memory and CPU constraints of mobile phones. ELIPS Suite has been ported to several ARM architecture mobile phone processors from vendors like ST-Ericsson (formerly Philips NXP Semiconductors[22][23]) and Texas Instruments[24][25]. ELIPS Suite has been used to create the SonyEricsson J132 mobile phone[26].
Industry awards and alliances
- In 2005, OpenPlug co-founded the LiPS Forum[27].
- In 2006, OpenPlug appeared in the RedHerring 100 Europe list[28]. The GSM Association also recognised OpenPlug for its component-based software technology for mobile phones with a Mobile Innovation Award[29].
- In 2008, OpenPlug joined the LiMo Foundation[30].
- In 2009, OpenPlug ranked 12th nationwide in France in the Deloitte Technology Fast50 ranking.of fast growing technology companies[2] and received the OSEO innovation prize[31].
External links
References
- ^ Alcatel-Lucent Q3 2010 results announcement
- ^ a b c Deloitte Fast 50 France ranking 2009
- ^ Alcatel-Lucent press release
- ^ a b Article from Scott Janousek
- ^ Article from Dale Rankine
- ^ # Flash Magazine Article
- ^ Adobe MAX presentation
- ^ Flash is beautiful article on ELIPS 3.0 at MAX
- ^ OpenPlug announcement about commercial release of ELIPS Studio
- ^ ENEA Press Release
- ^ Intel Moorestown platform to drive smartphones in 2010, Gizmag
- ^ Mobile88.com, Aava mobile announces plans for MIDs and smartphones
- ^ CES video of Aava device
- ^ Esmertec jBed features specification
- ^ India Time Infotech article on Jataayu and Open-Plug licensing agreement
- ^ Electronics Talk article on Jataayu and OP partnership
- ^ Brian Solomon, Zi Corporation Honored at 20th Annual Mobile Market Development Event, TMCNet
- ^ WebTimes Media, OpenPlug renforce son ecosysteme
- ^ Business Oulu, Nuance Communications has acquired nCore
- ^ Electroniccs Talk article on Sybase iAnywhere and OP integration
- ^ Electronics Talk article on Beepscience and OP partnership
- ^ Electronics Talk article on Philips Nexperia partner program
- ^ Electronics Talk article on Philips Nexperia and OP integration
- ^ TI OMAP VOx 1030 Application Suites partners page
- ^ Electronics Talk on OP and TI Platforms
- ^ Mobile Europe article on SEMC J132 and OpenPlug
- ^ New mobile Linux group launches, Computerworld
- ^ Red Herring 100 Europe 2006
- ^ GSMA Asia Mobile Innovation Award
- ^ LiMo gains steam as Mobile Linux of Choice, PC World
- ^ OSEO Innovation prize
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