| By Christopher Keene |
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| November 19, 2009 01:00 PM EST |
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Until today, web developers creating SaaS apps have been faced with an ugly choice: use proprietary development platforms like Force.com or build an open solution from scratch.
WaveMaker released the first open cloud development platform. WaveMaker 6.0 is a visual development platform that runs in a browser.
WaveMaker makes it ridiculously easy for anyone to prototype, develop and customize great looking web applications.
How easy you ask? Well, how 'bout:
With all this open and cloudy goodness, it is not surprising that the momentum behind WaveMaker continues to build.
What kind of momentum? Well, how 'bout:
Let the fireworks begin!
Christopher Keene is Chairman and CEO of WaveMaker (formerly ActiveGrid). Chris was the founder, in 1991, of Persistence Software, a San Mateo, CA-based company that created a new approach for managing data in high-transaction banking and communications systems. Persistence Software investors included Cisco, Intel, Reuters and Sun Microsystems. The company went public in 1999 on the NASDAQ exchange and was sold in 2004 to Progress software.After leaving Persistence Software in 2005, Chris spent a year in France as chairman of Reportive Software, a Paris-based maker of business-intelligence tools, and as an adjunct professor and entrepreneur-in-residence at INSEAD, a leading graduate business school.
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