History
During the late 1980s and 1990s various hardware and software vendors commercialized systems that allowed mobile users to access conventional computer networks, such as the World Wide Web and E-mail.
Specifications such as Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP), and Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless (BREW) were developed to provide standardized mobile interfaces to existing network infrastructure.
Mobile applications began to encompass electronic documents, typically by way of converting data from one format into a format suitable for a mobile device, primarily to provide Email attachment support to mobile devices with no local storage ability.
Concurrently various remote document access solutions, such as SSL-VPN, IPSec VPN, and WebDAV, were being developed as a means to overcome various network infrastructure issues in order to provide remote document access solutions to less-mobile (stationary?) computers. Many of the technologies developed for this problem, such as OCR, ECM, and technologies to convert documents in to HTML, would come to play an important role for MDA solutions.
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