Appcelerator buys mobile backend provider Cocoafish
Summary
The pickup, which follows Appcelerator’s purchase of Aptana and Particle Code last year, gives the company a robust cloud infrastructure provider and helps it appeal even more to its 1.6 million developers. Cocoafish, founded in 2010 in San Francisco by Michael Goff and Wei Kong, is part of an emerging class of mobile backend providers that includes Stackmob, Parse, Kinvey and others that are helping developers add cloud-based features to their apps. Appcelerator said it will also offer iOS (s aapl), Android (s goog), JavaScript and REST SDKs so that these services can be accessed by all mobile app developers, regardless of what technologies they use, such as Objective-C, Java, PhoneGap, Sencha and HTML5. And by opening iOS, Android, JavaScript and REST SDKs, it means that Appcelerator could also appeal to developers who don’t use its Titanium Platform. The purchase of Cocoafish also raises the question of whether we will see more consolidation in this nascent market as potentially other Platform-as-a-Service offerings or other companies look to add mobile support.
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