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Native, Web, or hybrid: How to choose your mobile development path

New tools and frameworks plus the right development kit could boost your mobile apps to multiple platforms

By Mel Beckman, InfoWorld, 10/08/12

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CoralTree Systems' Renaissance is an example of a development platform aimed at a specific enterprise IT environment, the IBM i. An open source product, Renaissance provides specific hooks for IBM security APIs and the RPG programming language. Server-specific mobile platforms such as Renaissance let enterprises add mobile support to legacy applications, saving the cost of re-creating complex business logic in a more modern language such as PHP or Ruby.

Choose wisely
The selection of mobile development tools has never been richer, or more affordable, than today. You can go native but pay big bucks for a slick app that eventually ships, or use a streamlined Web- or hybrid-development approach. Take the time to enumerate your application requirements and match them to an appropriate toolkit. You don't want to end up like Facebook, changing horses midstream.

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