LAS VEGAS, USA: The SCO Group, Inc., a provider of UNIX software technology and mobile services, has  announced that its new software developer toolkit for the SCO Mobile Server Platform is now available. Built to support the powerful SCO Mobile Server, developers can use this new toolkit to develop custom web and mobile digital services, one of the fastest growing technology markets.

The SCO Mobile SDK allows developers to enable an existing application for web and mobile services or develop an entirely new application. One of the first successful applications built upon this platform is the Shout Postcard mobile application, a free application that allows users to combine photos, audio, and text into multimedia postcards or web albums.

FCMobilelife developed by The SCO Group and distributed exclusively by FranklinCovey Products, a provider in effectiveness and productivity tools, is an excellent example of the depth of a web and mobility solution built upon the SCO Mobile Server Platform and now has thousands of users. HipCheck, a web and mobile application, and also developed on the SCO Mobile Platform lets users securely monitor their Windows, Solaris, SCO UNIX, servers, and other UNIX variants servers from a Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Treo or other popular smartphones and take correct corrective action as required.

The SCO Mobile Server SDK enables developers to build client-server applications supporting smartphone clients, browser-based clients and PC-clients. The SDK supports back-end integration with agents and brokers for connections to other servers and applications. Mobile application development with the SDK supports typical mobile development languages including Java (J2ME) on a variety of client OS platforms including BlackBerry devices, and C# for Windows mobile devices.

The SCO Mobile Server executes within a Java application server as a Java EE web application. The central value provided by SCO Mobile SDK is the ability to concentrate on the SCO Mobile Server both the servicing of client access as well as the data processing required by the application. Common tasks such as client authentication and mobile application downloads are handled by features of the SCO Mobile Server coupled with programming libraries for building J2ME or .Net clients.

"This is a significant and positive step forward for SCO's mobile initiatives and is a platform for cloud computing leading the way to Web 3.0," said Jeff Hunsaker, President and Chief Operating Officer, SCO Operations. "SCO has worked diligently to bring this SDK to market to provide developers with a powerful, new application development tool" said Hunsaker. "Built upon the reliability of the UNIX platform, developers can quickly build web and mobile solutions for a wide variety of popular smartphones."