Today we’ve opened some new doors for Aptana developers. Our Studio product has become the leading development environment for web applications, and I’m pleased to announce that we’ve now become part of the leading development platform, Appcelerator.

Appcelerator lets you use your existing web skills to develop native apps for mobile, tablet, desktop, in addition to the web. Their flagship Appcelerator Titanium platform has been in the market for more than two years, and was recently named by Mashable as one of the “5 Platforms that Defined the Mobile Space in 2010.” (The other four were Android, iOS, Windows Phone 7, and Unity ... not bad company to be in.)

If you aren’t a Titanium user already, check it out for yourself.

Appcelerator leads the industry in cross-platform development with tens of millions of users using over 10,000 native iOS, Android and desktop applications. In addition, with over 3,000 APIs in its flagship product, Titanium, the company also offers the deepest set of capabilities available of any development platform on the market. The Aptana acquisition moves the company to the next level by extending the capabilities of Appcelerator’s popular development platform to include world-class development tools that significantly improve developer productivity, integration and cloud connectivity.

In terms of the future of Aptana Studio, Radrails, Pydev and our various projects, this is a big win for our developers. The entire team who created the Aptana Studio has joined Appcelerator and is committed to continuing to provide enterprise-grade development tools that include client and server-side development.

In addition, we re-introduced PHP support (yeah!) and have subsumed RadRails (our Ruby on Rails IDE) as well as Pydev (our Python & Django IDE) into a singular product. Studio 3 is shaping up great and we expect to ship a production ready release during Q1 2011. You should expect Aptana Studio to remain free and open sourced.

I invite you to join me tomorrow morning for a live webcast to discuss the acquisition. I’ll be on the line with the Appcelerator execs, and we’ll be happy to answer your questions. In the meantime, we have an FAQ available.

Talk to you tomorrow,

Paul