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  • LiMo Foundation and GNOME Foundation Partner to Catalyze Further Open Source Innovation

    Alignment between these two key organizations will accelerate mainstream adoption of open source technologies and will empower open source developers worldwide

    THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS – 26 July 2010 – LiMo Foundation and GNOME Foundation today announced a key partnership with the objective of collaborating closely on open source software innovation. Starting immediately, LiMo Foundation will become a member of GNOME Foundation’s Advisory Board and GNOME Foundation will become an Industry Liaison Partner for LiMo Foundation. This development represents a natural formalization founded upon the significant use of GNOME Mobile software components within Release 2 and Release 3 of the LiMo PlatformTM.

  • Korea LiMo Ecosystem Association Holds Inaugural Meeting

    Cooperation amongst the top players in the Korean Mobile Industry to boost the Korean application developer ecosystem

    LONDON, ENGLAND and SEOUL, KOREA – 10 May 2010 – LiMo Foundation, a global consortium of leading companies from the mobile industry, today announced the formal inauguration of the Korea LiMo Ecosystem Association (KLEA) on May 4 in Seoul, which aims at catalyzing the Korean mobile application developer ecosystem and generating innovation upon the LiMo Platform. The event attended by dignitaries from the Ministry of Knowledge Economy, The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Samsung Electronics, SK Telecom, KT and LG Telecom amongst others, saw the election of Hoojong Kim from SK Telecom as the Chairperson of KLEA.

    KLEA will leverage the LiMo Platform to create LiMo World, an application development, publishing and distribution program that will act as a single point of entry for Korean developers wishing to develop for the LiMo Platform and will provide them with the necessary tools and localization support that will springboard them into the international mobile application market.

    "With KLEA, the leading Korean mobile companies which have a long history of innovation are uniting to unleash the apps potential of the Korean developer community for the benefit of a broader...
  • Open Letter to the Wholesale Applications Community

     

    Dear Industry Colleagues:

    Further to the public announcement of 15 February 2010, I am very pleased to write this open letter to the initiators of the Wholesale Applications Community on behalf of the Board of LiMo Foundation offering a) our full support, b) our committed participation, and c) our immediate practical assistance in a spirit of whole-industry cooperation.

    It is clear to us that the highly complementary areas of focus, shared belief in true openness and common industry vision create an exceptional opportunity for deep and long-term collaboration between LiMo Foundation and the Wholesale Applications Community to release unfettered innovation across the industry and fully ignite the mobile internet in a way that is compelling and life-enhancing to consumers everywhere.
Dynamic Programming Languages are Gaining Ground Over Static Languages
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Written by Peter Vescuso, Executive Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Black Duck Software   
Tuesday, 25 August 2009 11:07

Black Duck recently completed an analysis of programming languages used in open source projects.  While the universe of open source projects is much larger than those projects frequently used for mobile applications, the trends seem to reflect those of the mobile industry and the LiMo Platform in particular.

The analysis, which looked at language usage by counting lines of source code across all open source projects, shows static programming languages losing share to dynamic languages.

C and C++ taken together, account for the majority (>50%) of code in open source projects.  While Black Duck did not run the analysis on the LiMo platform, our understanding is that C is its most common language as well.  Trends in open source code are more interesting.  When analyzing project releases from the past 12-months, static programming languages C, C++ and Java are being used less often (-1.8 percentage points of share) in open source projects than dynamic languages JavaScript and PHP (+2.4 percentage points). Also gaining ground are SQL (up over 1 percentage point) and Ruby (+0.2 percentage point).

Data points drawn from the analysis include:

 

·         36% of projects with a release in the last 12 months included JavaScript, the most-used and fastest-growing scripting language. More projects overall have used JavaScript than Java by a margin of 3 percentage points.

·         65% of open source code is C, C++, and Java.

·         80% of open source code is C, C++, Java, Shell and JavaScript. JavaScript is the only one of these languages gaining in share – up over 2 percentage points in terms of number of lines of code.

·         C is the only language that has broken the billion lines-of-code barrier.

Al Hilwa, Program Director for Application Development Software at IDC reviewed the data and made the following observations: "Black Duck's data is consistent with what IDC is finding on the shift of application development towards web architectures. Languages associated with web applications such as JavaScript and PHP are showing greater growth when compared with traditional languages used for business logic of applications such as Java, C and C++.”

The shift to web architectures is reflected by Mal Minhas, CTO of LiMo Foundation in his recent post where he recommends leveraging web service APIs as much as possible. In addition, the LiMo R2 specification announcement included support for the BONDI specification and framework which standardizes interfaces for web applications.
 
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