Hal Steger, Funambol: Cross-Platform Mobile Apps

Funambol is the leading provider of open source push email and mobile synchronization for the mass market. It is also the world's most established cross-platform mobile open source project, whose software has been downloaded 2.5 million times by a global community of 50,000 developers and project participants. Developers use Funambol to build innovative mobile apps and services that run on multiple mobile platforms, including smartphones such as the iPhone, Google Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Palm and Mobile Linux, as well as 1.5 billion mass market feature phones. At its core, Funambol is an engine that can sync virtually any type of data with any type of mobile device. This session will consist of a technical introduction to using Funambol on Linux for building cross-platform mobile apps and services. It will cover the Funambol Server, Funambol Mobile Clients and resources available to people interested in building cross-platform mobile apps and services.

Hal Steger is VP Marketing at Funambol. He has twenty years of technical marketing experience at software companies, including Oracle, Compuware/Uniface, Hewlett-Packard and several high profile Silicon Valley Startups. Hal was co-founder and VP Marketing at Rubric, the pioneer of the category of Marketing Automation systems. Rubric was acquired for $370M. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business.

Presentation Slides

• Funambol_PenLUG_Oct08.pdf: Funambol PenLUG presentation
• Funambol_DS_Server_Architecture.pdf: Funambol Server Architecture

Funambol Demo Video

We didn't make a video of the presentation, but Funambol has provided this link to a demo of their open source offering:

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