OpenPlug is a French company focused on
mobile applicationsdevelopment tools and software for
mobile phones. The company was founded in August 2002 by Eric Baissus and David Lamy-Charrier. Before OpenPlug, they were in charge of the reference software solution for
Texas Instruments 2G and 2.5 product lines.
Alcatel-Lucent announced[3] it had acquired OpenPlug on September 1, 2010.
In December 2011 they announced end of life of their products. In December 2012, their website and tools were shut down.
Products
ELIPS Studio is a
cross-platform development environment (
SDK) for native mobile handset device applications. ELIPS Studio is provided as
plugin to
Adobe Systems’
Flex Builder IDE that allows compilation of Applications developed in
Actionscript and
MXML using
Adobe’s
Flex framework into native code and installable application packages for
iPhone,
Android,
Windows Mobile and
Symbian devices.[4][5] It also offers Actionscript
APIs for accessing a
smartphone’s on-device features and extra APIs for displaying native
GUI widgets.[6] ELIPS Studio was first unveiled at the
Mobile World Congress exhibition in February 2009[4] and its beta programme was started at the
Adobe MAX event in October 2009.[7][8] ELIPS Studio is available as a commercial product since August 2010.[9] As of December 15, 2011 the product has been discontinued at its CR15 release.
ELIPS Stack is a
3G cellular telephony stack designed to be integrated into
Linux-based mobile devices, such as
Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), smartphones and netbooks. It includes all the middleware necessary for telephony applications and User Interface to make use of a
3G radio modem, such as: voice call,
video call, SMS,
MMS. It includes a 3G-324M video call stack from
ENEA AB.[10] A
smartphone reference design based on
Intel’s
Moorestown processor with the
moblin OS and including ELIPS Stack has been shown at the CES 2010 show by Aavamobile.[11][12]
ELIPS Suite is a Man-Machine Interface (
MMI) software stack implementing a reference User Interface and middleware for
2G and
3G feature phones. It also integrates a range of optional 3rd-party modules such as:
Java ME JVM from
Myriad Group (formerly
Esmertec[13]), WAP browser and MMS stack from Comviva (formerly Jataayu Software[14][15]), predictive text input method engine and complex script renderer from
Nuance Communications (following acquisitions of Zi Corp and nCore[16][17][18]),
SyncML stack from
Sybase iAnywhere,[19]OMA DRM from
Safenet (following the acquisition of BeepScience[20]), amongst others. ELIPS Suite is supplied with an
SDK plugin for
Microsoft Visual Studio that includes a mobile phone simulator. The ELIPS Suite SDK exposes C APIs like
POSIX and Gtk and provides an
application framework that enforces a component-based software development model optimized for the memory and
CPU constraints of mobile phones. ELIPS Suite has been ported to several ARM architecture mobile phone processors from vendors like
ST-Ericsson (formerly
Philips NXP Semiconductors[21][22]) and
Texas Instruments.[23][24] ELIPS Suite has been used to create the
SonyEricsson J132 mobile phone.[25]
In 2006, OpenPlug appeared in the RedHerring 100 Europe list.[27] The
GSM Association also recognised OpenPlug for its component-based software technology for mobile phones with a Mobile Innovation Award.[28]
In 2009, OpenPlug ranked 12th nationwide in France in the
Deloitte Technology Fast50 ranking.of fast growing technology companies[2] and received the OSEO innovation prize.[30]