The Barkada platform uses flexible technologies such as XML, XSL and Java. The platform provides a highly available and scalable way of offering mobile communities to any WAP or web based terminal, or to any future mobile internet device. Barkada is available on Linux, NT and Sun operating systems. Customers can use the same flexible platform for developing their own XML enabled mobile internet applications. Colibria uses the Apache web server for development, but Barkada also runs on Netscape and IIS web servers.
Corporations can create communities for sharing information internally.
The Community owner decides which functions are available in the community, eg. Group SMS, Address book, Message Board, Email, etc. The community owner invites members to the communities. The portal users can be organized into many segments with different web design and default start pages. The technology The Colibria StartPage and Colibria Communities platform is developed using flexible technologies such as XML, XSL and Java.