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This week, Microsoft announced the acquisition of enterprise mobile market leader Xamarin. The acquisition is the culmination of years of successful collaboration between the two companies in which we saw Xamarin become the favorite of .NET developventuring in the mobile world.
From a capability standpoint, Xamarin provides a cross platform model to develop iOS, Android and Windows Phone applications using .NET. More recently, Xamarin extended its offering with solutions for monitoring, managing, and testing applications developed in the platform. The acquisition of Xamarin is a great addition to the Microsoft stack and a great complement to the Azure platform that has become one of the lead platform as a service (PaaS) offerings in the market.
The acquisition of Xamarin follows the recent acquisition of Appcelerator, another cross platform market leader, by Axway. With the two main cross platform mobile app development solutions belonging to larger enterprise software players, the market might be open for a new platform.
A new cross platform mobile app development solution?
For years, Xamarin and Appcelerator have dominated the cross platform mobile application development space in the enterprise. The acquisitions of both companies have created a void in the market for a new solution. After analyzing the characteristics in the development of the enterprise mobile platform ecosystem, as...