The Red Hat and eBay-backed mobile application infrastructure provider has become the third company to be acquired by mobile platform Appcelerator.

Mobile platform company Appcelerator acquired US-based app infrastructure provider Cocoafish on Thursday, paying an undisclosed amount. The deal makes Cocoafish the third business to have been acquired by Appcelerator in just over a year.

Appcelerator absorbed IDE (Integrated Development Environment) company Aptana last January and bumped up its HTML5 expertise when it acquired Particle Code in October. The Cocoafish acquisition marks Appcelerator’s entry into the wider mobile market, according to the company.

Cocoafish provides an open platform for app developers…