iPhone apps for company-internal use - possible?

I hope this is still programming related, as SuperUser doesn't seem the appropriate place.

Basically I wonder if it is possible to have Applications that are internal to a company on the iPhone? That is something like a companion Application to an Intranet (when Safari and Mail just don't cut it)开发者_Go百科 which wouldn't make sense on the AppStore (and likely wouldn't get approved anyway).

Is something like that possible (without Jailbreaking or doing anything else that Apple doesn't normally want)?

---

You have 2 types of subscription for the iPhone developer:

• $99 a year - regular program with the ability to upload your applications to the app store.
• $299 a year - enterprise program that is used for distributing apps inside the company...

The second program is exactly for you.

---

There's the Iphone enterprise deployment program. It seems to cover exactly the scenario you are describing, although I am not sure about the admission criteria you have fulfill.

---

I don't think so i think the best bet is to develop a web application and develop a custom skin so that it can be viewed properly in the iphone web browser safari, they could then add a shortcut to the webapp to their home screen add a fancy icon to it and then it would look like a iPhone app.