The Scottsdale, Arizona-based ISV has been in fixed-network patch management since 1999, delivering its PatchLink Update technology in a client/server implementation, with agents on each PC, laptop and server on the network. Now, said CEO Sean Mohir, the privately-held company plans to launch agents to sit on the main flavors of mobile devices in use in enterprises.
We’ll have PatchLink Update Agents for the RIM BlackBerry, Symbian, Windows Mobile and PalmOS in September, with releases for Java, Linux and BREW later in the year, he went on.
Pricing for the individual mobile agents has yet to be defined, but Mohir did say that, for instance, for desktop Windows environments, PatchLink charges $18 per node per year. As for potential competition, he said most of what he sees in the market are small start-ups. They typically do BIOS or firmware updates to the OS, which we do as well, but we also do application updates.
