Amdocs to acquire Streamezzo
I’ve been quite involved with Streamezzo since its creation. First, we were at the same incubator at Telecom Paris, then Kamayo which I co-founded based his work on STZ’s engine and got eventually acquired by STZ, and I had the chance to keep close bounds with the company.
Innovacom invested last year in Streamezzo and reboosted the company so well that it just got acquired by AMDOCS. While I don’t know the details of the deals, one can only guess that such a quick turn-around means a good deal for Innovacom and for the founders (who are known to be treated respectfully by Innovacom).
The technology will certainly become a part of AMDOCS’ CES portfolio offering to Telcos worldwide. As usual when it comes to operators technology, 100% of user-base support is compulsory and Streamezzo has been the only one to reach that level yet.
Congrats again on the deal !
well… I never understood the value of Streamezzo’s offer, except may be for B2B GUI, or low-end phones
Flash is coming, Apple is closing its turf more than ever, end-users want quick and responsive UX with their phones, web apps are likely to overcome native apps within 3 years
likely a charity deal
Well,
Flash has been coming for ages and is certainly not going to be workign on all platforms
Web apps are less sexy than real apps (cf apple who had the same thoughts and changed mind)
At the end I think their value prop does make sense, it provides a full production workflow for mobile apps at a carrier-grade level and is definetly relevent in that area