Mountain View-based start-up Appcelerator has raised $4.1 million in a Series A round led by Storm Ventures. The money will go primarily towards the development of an open source competitor to Adobe AIR, which enables web developers to create applications that look and function more like desktop programs.
Titanium is the first open platform for building rich desktop applications:
- Open source: Titanium is licensed under the Apache Public License (version 2)
- Open web: Use standard HTML, CSS and Javascript to build rich desktop apps
- Open desktop: Run your apps on Windows, Mac and Linux (coming soon!)
- Open API: Add rich desktop capabilities to your apps using a simple Javascript API
See some Titanium-powered demos here.
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Sounds brilliant, anything less system draining than AIR is welcomed, when will it be available?
@Casey Wymer:
At the time of writing, Titanium was under heavy development.
Now it’s pretty stable :)