After receiving excellent response on its free web rapid application development tool launched three months ago, a UK-based software company Ebase Technology, released the new version of Ebase Xi Community Edition.
Embedded with rich client development feature for browser and mobile apps, V4.3 of the Xi software merges application development, workflow processing and data integration into a powerful and easy to use single-technology IDE. The 4.3 release extends Ebase Xi's already comprehensive support for UI development, workflow processing and data integration.
"The market for mobile and rich client web apps has exploded over the last couple of years," said Jon Rickard, product director at Ebase Technology, "and we see people spending way more time and money developing this stuff than they need to. So for us it made perfect sense to extend Xi's productivity to meet the demand. What we've done is integrate the jQuery libraries for browser and mobile into the Xi platform and made it really fast and easy for people to create cool, portable web apps."
Jon commented, "Our core objective remains the same: to drive down the cost of web app development, whether for browsers, mobiles, or any other media. We just don't buy the idea that the huge amount spent on app development right now is either justified or sustainable."
Launched in September 2011, the Community Edition is a completely free-to-develop, ship-and-deploy version of the entire Xi platform with the only limitation being a maximum of 10 concurrent run-time users. The solution comes with paid licenses for higher concurrencies maxing out at #6,400 for an unlimited concurrency server license. The Xi platform is characterized by ease of use and simplicity, and delivers its productivity by abstracting complex technical standards, such as those for cascading style sheets, web services and data integration, and replacing them with intuitive visual controls.
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Edited by Juliana Kenny
