HTTP allowed anyone to compete on a level playing field when it came to the Internet. Different operating systems, smaller memory footprints, slower communications and data synchronization and different data input methods all come into play. Even if you plan to provide mission-critical information via a dedicated access line, you can use the same technology that's currently in place for an intranet or extranet. The content may be authored for each device, or it could be transformed in some way. Authoring becomes expensive as you send data to more devices.
Transformation provides benefits over authoring, namely scalability and flexibility.
He points to Geoworks, which recently introduced a Mobile ASP to support enterprise applications, which utilizes a back-end server and offers operations and support to clients. However, the jury on outsourcing for m-commerce is still out, primarily due to security reasons. First, the data is very valuable, and second, the data is in a mission-critical enterprise database. Rob Crigler agrees. Everything transmitted from the gateway to the server system is encrypted using usual firewall equipment.