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  • Nitobi enters into Acquisition Agreement with Adobe

    by Colene | Mon, Oct 3, 2011

    We have exciting news to share—we’re being acquired by Adobe! Adobe has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Nitobi (including PhoneGap and PhoneGap Build). This was officially announced today at Adobe’s MAX 2011 technology Conference in Los Angeles.

    What does this mean for us?

    This acquisition will allow Nitobi to focus solely on PhoneGap and work with Adobe to offer developers more efficient, expressive design and development across devices with HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. By joining forces with Adobe, we’ll be able to offer even more innovative applications across platforms and devices, with greater reach.

    “Adobe has always been a big supporter of the open source community and at the forefront of enabling rich, web based applications across screens,” said Andre Charland, CEO of Nitobi. “We share the same philosophy about enabling extraordinary mobile and web applications. Becoming part of the Adobe family with its industry-leading tools and technologies opens up amazing new opportunities for PhoneGap and our customers.”

    Another really exciting part of this is that we’re putting the PhoneGap code base in the Apache Software Foundation. See more about it in our ASF proposal here.

    Read the full Press Release, including FAQ, on CEO Andre Charland’s blog.
    Read Andre Charland’s thoughts on Nitobi & PhoneGap’s new home at Adobe.

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  • http://www.fondotinta.info/ fondotinta

    after macromedia phonegap is the best acquired company!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1233822590 Matthew O’Leary

    HTML5 and CSS3 definitely help developers avoid using flash for many things the web couldn’t do before. Flash is still great for creating really amazing multimedia experiences. Both serve a different role and I love both. You black and white thinkers sound like idiots.

  • http://twitter.com/chethrington Chris Hethrington

    I’m not sure you can reasonably say that Adobe depends on Flash to survive. It was doing just fine before it acquired macromedia and the depth of their application base is huge: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, AfterEffects, Premiere to name a few without touching on the Macromedia apps.

  • Prezire

    i don’t think so.  it’s evolving and focusing on apps instead of just regular browsers’ simple fancy animations.  let’s see what you can do with your html5 when the standardization is done.  i bet the ie team vs the firefox team won’t agree to the same output and you’ll be struggling with the same stone age, trashcan-look-a-like-code on your markups, js and css implementations.  *i wonder if it’s easy to create sync’d ads using html5  –not…  look for what the web is for the future instead of just doing it all over again same as before.

  • Fabrizio Salmi

    It’s good for phonegap managers and developers, who knows for future phonegap releases and licenses?

  • Dakota Brink

    Nooooooooooooooo!

  • mynameisadobenitobi

    yeeesss. I want to see phonegap in the hands of Adope. Adope and Nitobi. Sounds right!

  • Ade

    sounds good to me… at least we know that phonegap will not be going anyway from a support standpoint

  • jerkywez

    Watch it will become a non open-source project now..

  • http://www.satya-weblog.com Satya Prakash

    Phonegap in Apache software foundation. Very good and appreciable move. 

  • http://glatelier.wordpress.com PaBLoX

    “Adobe has always been a big supporter of the open source community and at the forefront of enabling rich, web based applications across screens,” #oknot

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bil-Jac/100001313786851 Bil Jac

    wow. Thanks guys, you just took one of the best things on the market for phones and handed it over to the giant corporate sith lords. Your Jedi status is hereby revoked.

  • Briankim1111

    You lucky guys…you’re rich now

  • http://smw.myopenid.com/ dude

    “Adobe has always been a big supporter of the open source community and
    at the forefront of enabling rich, web based applications across
    screens” That’s a load of steaming cow turds. Give us a break with the marketing speak. I’m happy for Nitobi staff, but it means I’ll probably steer clear of their products.

    Adobe makes bloated software. I’m sure there are things in the latest version of PS can do that 4 couldn’t do, but it’s minimal. Adobes products are mostly used by the pr0n industry anyway. They have a monopoly nothing. “Oh I need Dreambeaver to make a website for my dog…” n00btards…

  • Zure

    Yeah, Adobe is known for OpenSource….nah not really. Adobe=really expensive softwares. I haven´t even started developing with PhoneGap (just playing around and learning). But i do think my time would be better spent with another framework that isn´t partnered with a greedy company like Adobe. It won´t take long before this nice framework will be expensive.

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