280 North, Inc.

280 North was a web software development startup company formed in 2008 by college friends Tom Robinson, Francisco Tolmasky, and Ross Boucher.[1] 280 North was funded by Y Combinator.[2] It was purchased by Motorola in 2010.[3] Tolmasky and Boucher both previously worked for Apple, on the iPhone and iTunes respectively.[1]

280 North
Industryweb software
Founded2008
FounderTom Robinson
Francisco Tolmasky
Ross Boucher
Headquarters
United States

They created a software stack that includes Objective-J, which relates to Javascript in the same way that Objective-C relates to C, and Cappuccino, which is a port of the Apple Cocoa API. Cappuccino and Objective-J have been released as open source software.[4] Their first major release was 280 Slides, which is presentation software similar to Apple's Keynote or Microsoft's PowerPoint, but that works entirely in a web browser using JavaScript.[1] Their next project was a drag-and-drop visual integrated development environment for web applications named Atlas, which could work with the iPhone API. Atlas was to be open-sourced, but, after acquiring 280 North, Motorola decided to keep Atlas private.[5][6] [7]

Notes
  1. Forseman, Chris (June 26, 2008). "Cocoa on the web: 280 North, Objective-J, and Cappuccino". ars technica. Retrieved May 12, 2009.
  2. 280 North Company Profile, CrunchBase.
  3. Arrington, Michael (August 24, 2010). "Motorola Snaps Up 280 North For $20 Million".
  4. "Cappuccino". Archived from the original on August 22, 2011. Retrieved September 24, 2018.
  5. SD Times Issue No. 219, April 1, 2009, pp. 1, 21
  6. Forseman, Chris (March 31, 2009). "Atlas: a visual IDE for desktop-like web apps". ars technica. Retrieved May 12, 2009.
  7. Kumparak, Greg (March 4, 2009). "280 North's Atlas bridges the gap between Web Apps and native iPhone applications". MobileCrunch. Retrieved May 12, 2009.
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