Rhodes 2.0 Released! Rhodes apps continuing to be accepted on App Store

Yesterday was an exciting day in RhomoVille. We released Rhodes 2.0. As announced at the Web 2.0 Conference (where we won the LaunchPad award) Rhodes 2.0 is now FREE under MIT License and has many new exciting features:
- native mapping on all devices -we have implemented the best of breed iPhone style native mapping for all devices. You can get the iPhone-like zoomable, linkable, annotable native maps
- robust support for direct web services connections – Your Rhodes app can talk directly to your backend system via http and https (retrieving XML and JSON)
- a “metadata framework” – This allows you to work with enterprise application backends that have arbitrary schemas. This is typical with large ERP and CRM systems such as SAP or SugarCRM as deployed in real enterprises. Instead of hardcoding pages and forms for the business objects you write your pages to work against the metadata describing an objects fields, labels, and data types. This allows you to handle changing schema. Logic Appeal used this in their Rhodes app for SugarCRM now deployed at customers.
- and many other features

There are recorded webinars on all of the features of Rhodes on our Vimeo channel (this Friday’s webinar is on PIM contacts and alerts).

And just an update for many of you because you asked, Rhodes apps are continuing to be accepted on the App Store (as we indicated they would be) even after the iPhone 4.0 Terms of Service went into effect. Some of the recent apps accepted include TrackR 2.0 (a free app for PivotalTracker), Metalingual (an app for language translation from Sarah Allen), WorshipPlanner, and iFirefigher.

We’re looking forward to seeing many more Rhodes 2.0 apps from all of you. Drop us a line to tell us about them.