Today, IT can purchase cloud-based enterprise mobile device and app management, application development platforms and mobile business applications such as field service and CRM.

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The social and application platforms are going through such rapid growth that development is quite literally like trying to hit a moving target.

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"Since the introduction of MonoTouch in 2009, developers have experienced how Mono streamlines mobile application development, " said Miguel de Icaza, Mono project founder and vice president of Developer Platforms at Novell.

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