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In 18 Months Telerik Kendo UI Spawns 200,000 TrialsWALTHAM, Mass. --(Business Wire)-- After 18 months of market penetration, Telerik announced today significant success with Kendo UI, the framework for building HTML5 and JavaScript websites, desktop and mobile apps. In less than two years, the framework has been downloaded more than 200,000 times, is in use in more than 200 countries and has been acknowledge by leading authorities as a framework of choice for application development. Moreover, for its proven capabilities, Google (News - Alert) has continued to work with Telerik and the Kendo UI team on the creation of HTML5-based apps that will support its cutting-edge Chrome OS platform. The goal of the collaboration and subsequent release of the Camera App, shipping as part of Google Chrome OS and delivering a full-featured photo booth style application, is to demonstrate the importance of and Telerik's commitment to developer choice.1 "We believe very strongly that developers should have a choice in how they create and develop tomorrow's latest and greatest technologies," said Todd Anglin, EVP of Cross-Platform Tools & Services at Telerik. "Application development is not a zero-sum game, HTML5 is a viable and valuable option to those who want to take a write once and deploy many strategy. We along with Google recognize this and will work together to deliver all the tools necessary for developer success." Telerik has conducted intense analysis to get a more complete view of the market as it relates to HTML5 - including two industry-related surveys with a combined 9,000+ respondents. The results clearly indicated time and again, that "the modern web" is advancing at a rapid pace. Because of this, Kendo UI has been strategic in the design and development of its technology, offering key features such as web app and mobile app development frameworks, rich UI widgets and server wrappers for programmability. It offers several unique competitive differentiators including:
As a result of a concentrated effort to put forth the best technology possible and to partner with those who have like-minded goals, such as Google, the market has taken notice. In the last year and a half, 7.7 million people visited the Kendo UI web site to learn more. Of those, more than 100,000 people downloaded and are actively using the framework. In the first three months of 2013 alone, there were 20,000 new trials and a 300% increase in sales for Q1 2013 compared to Q1 2012. "When we brought Kendo UI to the market, we knew we had a winner on our hands," commented Todd Anglin. "HTML5 will continue to grow in importance and our framework has already helped many developers bring to bear some incredible and exciting apps. As the market continues to shift, due to disruptive mobile technologies, the Kendo UI team will push the envelope, ensuring our technology stays ahead of the competition in innovation, usability and customer adoption." Details on Telerik Kendo UI can be found at www.kendoui.com. Kendo UI and the Chrome OS Camera App will also be on display this week in the Developers Sandbox at Google I/O.
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