Versioning can get very expensive very fast, so things need to be kept simple.

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Mobile Server also includes support for a number of services for building mobile applications, including XML, Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) and Wireless Markup Language.

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What's more, the "write once, deploy everywhere" nature of the platform will massively reduce the cost of creating, versioning and maintaining applications, enabling a truly open, standards-based Web that advances opportunity and innovation for all.

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The company is betting that among the multitudes of sharers, there will be a significant portion that will pay for support and other premium services, such as advanced versioning, snapshots to outside mechanisms such as Iron Mountain, white labeling by resellers and enterprise customers, and so on.

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