Funambol Provides Push Email For The Masses

Funambol develops an open source server that mimics Blackberry’s push/sync functionalities that interfaces with any email server like Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Notes. They have also developed a client software that works on most mobile phones.

The great thing is that the Funambol community is very active and quick porting the client to more and more mobile phones, like the Blackberry, though why anybody would want it on the Blackberry is another issue. Its also supported on the iPhone and Google’s Android platform.

The company has a fairly simple demo site at MyFunambol.com that users can point their cellphones to, to try out the push/sync functions. Hopefully all this will see more push email for everybody.