Industry experts maintain that many business applications vendors are still struggling to successfully port their tools to mobile handsets. But some software makers claim that by partnering with wireless specialists to develop their systems, they are selling more licenses to end-users today.
More than half of global companies expect to develop a wireless application in the next year, according to a survey released Tuesday by Evans Data Corp. in Santa Cruz, Calif.
Palm Inc. extended its foray into the corporate software market Monday with the introduction of a new product aimed at IT developers and system integrators who want to create wireless applications that can access company databases in real time.