Why PhoneGap/Cordova?

Cordova is a natural fit for the enterprise environment for many reasons, some of which are listed as follows:

• Quickly create cross-platform hybrid apps with little duplication of work and high code reuse
• Leverage technologies already known by most developers familiar with web, multi-tier, and backend development
• Access native features on mobile hardware—including network information, device location, camera, and more
• Where necessary, create custom plugins to extend PhoneGap/Cordova for specific needs
• Embed PhoneGap/Cordova into existing native apps as a component
• A very active development community (nearly 22,000 members in the Google group for PhoneGap), including a good deal of third-party plugin development (as of this writing, 1,168 plugins are made available by 797 different authors); core development is supported by Adobe (PhoneGap) and Apache (Cordova)
• Ability to deploy apps internally or to app stores
• Open source (Apache license)
• Enterprise-grade support options available
• Additional features offered for PhoneGap by Adobe for the enterprise (http://enterprise.phonegap.com)