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Volantis was a mobile internet software company based in Guildford, England, it is now owned by Antenna Software, inc., Volantis provides mobile applications and software solutions which give operators and enterprises access to a content delivery platform and a device database which contained over 7,000 handsets as of February 2010.〔David Murphy, ''Mobile Marketing'', 18 February 2010, http://mobilemarketingmagazine.com/content/volantis-celebrates-device-library-milestone〕 Volantis was part of the W3C’s (Mobile Web Initiative ),〔'Volantis chaired the W3C DIWG and was also a Founding Sponsor of the W3C Mobile Web Initiative', ''Light Reading'', 21 June 2005, http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=76088〕 a member of the Open Mobile Alliance〔''Open Mobile Alliance - Current Members'', http://www.openmobilealliance.org/Membership/CurrentMembers.aspx, retrieved 4 August 2010〕 and an advocate of Open Standards. ==History== Volantis was founded by Jennifer Bursack, Martin Gaffney, Brett Nulf, and Mark Watson, who had all worked together at Tivoli Systems (a subsidiary of IBM) in the UK. In March 2000 the four founders resigned from IBM and approached investors under the name Unwired Ltd.〔Mike Harkey, ''Stanford Graduate School of Business Case Study - Volantis'', 15 May 2006, https://gsbapps.stanford.edu/cases/documents/E224.pdf, retrieved 15 September 2010〕 The company name was changed, a few months later, to Volantis Systems Ltd. - the taking its name from the constellation Volans. The company’s logo is a representation of the constellation. The initial idea which the founders took to investors involved "developing a yellow pages-like directory service for mobile phones". This was soon dropped in favour of creating "technologies to enable companies to build web sites for all sorts of devices—smart phones, kiosks, digital televisions, gaming consoles, and...mobile phones".〔Mike Harkey, ''Stanford Graduate School of Business Case Study - Volantis'', 15 May 2006, https://gsbapps.stanford.edu/cases/documents/E224.pdf, retrieved 16 September 2010〕 The company received an initial investment of $3.2m from Kennet Partners in mid-2000. In 2001, the company received a round of funding led by Softbank Europe. The company grew quickly until the collapse of the Internet bubble and the events of 11 September 2001 forced Volantis to downsize and consolidate. Several significant telecommunications account signings (including Telefonica and Hutchison Whampoa) helped the company to recover and led it to change from offering "a multi-device service to a single device service", as "an enabler for mobile phone carriers." Another funding round, led by Accel Partners, was completed in 2002, and in July 2005, Volantis raised a further $7.5 million, bringing the total venture capital raised to $31.6 million.〔Mike Harkey, ''Stanford Graduate School of Business Case Study - Volantis'', 15 May 2006, https://gsbapps.stanford.edu/cases/documents/E224.pdf, retrieved 19 October 2010〕 This achievement was recognised by Fast Track, who included the company in their Tech Track 100 (run in association with ''The Sunday Times'') in 2006.〔Fast Track, ''2006 Tech Track 100'', 2006, http://www.fasttrack.co.uk/fasttrack/leagues/dbDetails.asp?siteID=3&compID=1891&yr=2006, retrieved 19 October 2010〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Volantis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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