Thank you for the history of Montage and congratulations on creating an amazing product!
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Benoit Marchant <[email protected]> wrote: > Fellow WebObjects developers, > > I'm really proud to announce that Montage Studio, the company behind > MontageJS is now out in the open, more at http://montagestudio.com. For > the past 18 months, the team has been building, with MontageJS, an > interactive authoring environment to take the creation of MontageJS > applications to a whole new level. > > The technological path toward Montage Studio originated at Apple where I > worked from 1999 to 2010 on bringing the ease-of-use of Mac OS X / iOS user > interfaces to the Web. On this journey, I created a first framework and > worked with other talented engineers such as Pierre Frisch, Mike Czepiel > and François Frisch to build modern, intuitive web applications for the > iTunes Store, Apple Retail and apple.com. > > [One accidental send later ;-) ] > > In the summer of 2010, I left Apple for Motorola Mobility to lead as > Director of Engineering the creation of a Mobile HTML5 platform, a well > funded project that was sponsored by the CEO. I was quickly followed by the > group of Apple engineers that would later become the core of the Montage > Studio team. Leveraging our shared experience at Apple and with new talents > added to the team, we applied some of the key engineering designs of Cocoa > and WebObjects to HTML5 and created MontageJS, a modern HTML5 framework > that simplifies the development of expressive, cross-screen applications. > > In the summer of 2012, after the acquisition of Motorola by Google, the > new leadership allowed us to release MontageJS as open source under a BSD > license. I co-founded Montage Studio with Pierre Frisch, quickly joined by > the core team from Motorola. We're VC funded, notably by Avie Tevanian, the > former VP Engineering at NeXT and former Apple CTO. > > With the interactive authoring features of Montage Studio, in beta, web > designers and developers work together in this cloud-based environment to > craft powerful, future-proof applications that seamlessly blend 2D and 3D > content, exceed user expectations, and drive cross-screen engagement. > Montage Studio is directly connected with GitHub. You'll find some concepts > from Interface Builder applied to components, with Functional Reactive > Bindings, event handling, the ability to build 3D components, reuse > components, some powerful and configurable components like the Flow, some > improved composition concepts compared to WebObjects, and the ability to > see in real-time, in your app running on-devices, the changes you're making > to that app in Montage Studio. Montage Studio is free to use for open > source projects and will be available as a subscription for closed source > projects, just like GitHub. > > I'm incredibly proud of what our team has achieved and excited about the > potential for developers, especially for you, as you should find it really > familiar and easy to learn! So join the beta here at > http://montagestudio.com/reveal/ and we look forward to hearing from you! > > > Benoit > > CEO & Co-Founder > > Montage Studio > > http://montagestudio.com/ > > Twitter: montagejs > > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/benoitmarchant > > > On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Benoit Marchant <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Fellow WebObjects developers, >> >> I'm really proud to announce that Montage Studio, the company behind >> MontageJS is now out in the open, more at http://montagestudio.com. For >> the past 18 months, the team has been building, with MontageJS, an >> interactive authoring environment to take the creation of MontageJS >> applications to a whole new level. >> >> The technological path toward Montage Studio originated at Apple where I >> worked from 1999 to 2010 on bringing the ease-of-use of Mac OS X / iOS user >> interfaces to the Web. On this journey, I created a first framework and >> worked with other talented engineers such as Pierre Frisch, Mike Czepiel >> and François Frisch to build modern, intuitive web applications for the >> iTunes Store, Apple Retail and apple.com. >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/jlmiller%40kahalawai.com > > This email sent to [email protected] >
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