At the Fall Comdex 2001 show, leading telecommunications companies pledged their support for Nokia’s open standard initiative, and "now it’s gaining momentum and expanding into the IT infrastructure domain," said Pertti Korhonen, Nokia’s senior vice president of Mobile Software.

BEA Systems, Inc., Borland Software Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems, Inc. support the initiative by committing to create interoperable service solutions for service providers, corporations and mobile operators. Nokia said joint specifications will be developed in full compliance with the guidelines provided by the relevant industry standardization bodies.

Through this initiative the companies will develop uniform mobile APIs for the J2EE-based environment, providing developers with the tools to incorporate mobility into their applications and thus fuel worldwide growth of mobile services and software.

By working together, "we [can] lay the foundation for an architecture that will bridge the mobile and Web domains, creating a seamless user experience and enabling truly powerful services," said Korhonen.

Bea Systems believes by committing to standards such as J2EE, J2ME, XHTML, and SyncML will reduce the complexity of pervasive computing technologies, said Scott Dietzen, CTO of BEA Systems. "This initiative is well designed to help apply the Web effect to the wireless marketplace, which in turn will make it easier for our customers to build multi-channel applications for pervasive clients," he added.