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Adobe Advances Flash with New AIR, Cloud, Flex Solutions

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 17th Nov 2008 19:11 UTC

At its annual MAX user conference, Adobe puts on the dog and serves up new tooling and other support for Flash. Adobe introduces Flex Builder Gumbo, Flash Catalyst â" formerly known as Thermo, the availability of Adobe AIR 1.5 and a pre-release of the 64-bit Linux version of Adobe Flash Player 10. Adobe also opens up its cloud initiative, known as Cocomo, as a public beta.

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Good article

by TBPrince on Mon 17th Nov 2008 22:04 UTC

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2005-07-06

A very good article. The Flash / Flex platform is creating a very good offer for cross-OS development.

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RE: Good article

by Bill Shooter of Bul on Tue 18th Nov 2008 00:14 in reply to "Good article"

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2006-07-14

As long as you don't cross onto 64 bit windows. As a consumer, if given a choice between a desktop app written in flash or almost anything else, I'd choose anything else -- even Java!

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RE[2]: Good article

by TBPrince on Tue 18th Nov 2008 09:48 in reply to "RE: Good article"

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2005-07-06

Right. But I suspect release of 64bit Flash rushed for Linux and slowed for Windows is aimed to weaken Windows / .NET / Silverlight stack. And, btw, that's my stack of choice as that's a great platform. Just, it's less portable than Flash.

Note: you can run 32bit Flash on 64bit Windows too.

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