With the recent launch of
its mobile application server followed by a multi-million dollar
investment, Aligo, Inc. is hoping to secure a strong footing in the
wireless translation market.
After introducing its M-1 Mobile Application Server version 2.0,
which transforms an enterprise's existing applications and
infrastructure into a fully wireless format, the San Francisco,
CA-based company landed $11.2-million in a second round of funding
from two investors: Thomas Weisel Venture Partners and RBC Capital
Partners.
"Aligo offers a comprehensive mobile server solution to
fully meet the needs of an enterprise’s mobile workforce,"
said David Crowder, a TWVP partner. "They have established
themselves as a technology leader, and are achieving significant
market traction with a robust Java of mobile application server that
can turn a company's current application server into a wireless
platform."
With the influx of new capital, the American company hopes to
differentiate itself from its competition, including wireless-ASPs
Everypath and Air2Web. The company intends to use the funds to build
on sales and marketing initiatives, establish partnerships with
server application developers, and promote M-1 Server as the first
100% Java-based service product for the wireless translation market.
With M-1 Server, developers are promised simplification: They can
avoid the complexity of wireless protocols, languages, and networks,
or devices and need only build an application once, which can be
automatically delivered to any mobile device.
For more information: http://www.aligo.com/news/pr_062701.htm
Mobileinfo Comments and Advisory: Aligo's M-1 Mobile
Application Server is in the right market space. But we are afraid
that the big guys in general-purpose application server market will
find it hard to accept this onslaught on the borders of their
territory. Nonetheless, we have stated that there is need for a
specialized wireless application server that can sit besides other
application servers. On long term basis, we see wireless application
server subsumed by its big brother - general purpose application
server.
