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Why Funambol acquired Zapatec. Fabrizio Capobianco explains how the move extends Funambol's mobile tech strategy.

Open source mobile push email and sync provider, Funambol announced today it has acquired AJAX Web 2.0 framework provider Zapatec. Currently, mobile Web app developers are forced to build native apps for several different platforms, a process that's time-consuming and costly. Funambol's acquisition of Zapatec addresses the issue by offering a way for developers to build open mobile browser apps that take advantage of a phone's native capabilities, yet supports multiple devices.

Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco tells OStatic he sees good things ahead as a result of this new partnership. Developers today need to build separate native apps for too many mobile platforms, including the iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian, BREW, mobile Linux, Java ME and other proprietary mobile OSs and environments. It is too much work to support all of these platforms, which forces developers to make difficult choices about which phones to support